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TIL Mars only gets close enough to Earth to give up much detail just once every 780 days. It’s the only planet to reveal an appreciable amount of surface detail in a small telescope, and it also features occasional surprises such as dust storms and local fogs and cloud banks

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D158r TIL even before the surgeon general issued his report on the dangers of tobacco, Mad Magazine went on an anti-smoking crusade ridiculing big tobacco, as agencies, and even smokers. Also before it became law, Mad Magazine's offices were smoke free and none of their content featured smoking.
XEnM6 TIL that Alaska is not only the most northern and western state in the US, but also the most eastern state due to the fact that the Aleutian Islands cross the 180° longitude line
vP0Lj TIL in 1647, the British Parliament banned Christmas in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. Christmas was rebelliously celebrated with men carrying spikes clubs patrolling the streets making sure shops stayed closed and riots in Norwich killing 40 people, resulting in the Second Civil War
yVDJX TIL that in 1929, in the United States, Kodak founder George Eastman pushed for a 13-month calendar with equal 28-day months and a new month called “Sol” between June and July. It was used at Kodak but never caught on nationwide.
W7wXB TIL There were three found unused pitch concept levels for a DLC based on the famous "Steamboat willie" cartoon from 1928 in an early "deploy build" for the 2008 Video game LittleBigPlanet.