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TIL Comic Sans is based on the lettering in Watchmen
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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).
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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
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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.
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TIL that In 1842, experiments we're conducted to determine the windspeed needed to pluck a chicken for tornado research
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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.