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TIL Comic Sans is based on the lettering in Watchmen

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yVYXV TIL about Cordelia Botkin, a U.S. woman who mailed a box of poisoned chocolates to Elizabeth Dunning, her ex-lover's wife, in 1898. Dunning and her older sister, Ida Harriet Deane, died two days later. It was the 1st prosecuted U.S. crime that took place in two states (mailed from CA to DE).
LkwYp TIL the north pole of Mars is surrounded by a flat and featureless lowland, several kilometers lower the mean height of the planet, called Vastitas Borealis
pYmrZ TIL about François Vatel, who was in charge of a banquet for 2000 people in honour of King Louis XIV in 1671. He committed suicide during preparations for the meal after a seafood delivery was late, and was only discovered when someone was sent to inform him that it had arrived.
P1xRV TIL that In 1842, experiments we're conducted to determine the windspeed needed to pluck a chicken for tornado research
96Z7 TIL the bubble gum is pink because that was the only dye Diemer (the inventor) had on hand at the time and it was his favorite color.