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TIL Earthquakes on Mars are called Marsquakes.

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9w0ZM TIL during the negotiations to end the Spanish-American War, Spain originally rejected the US demand for the whole of the Philippines and wanted to cede only Mindanao or the Sulu Islands. US negotiators responded by proposing to pay $20 million for the whole of the Philippines, which Spain accepted.
EVrX TIL I learned that the band Aerosmith earned more money from ‘Guitar Hero’ than from any of their albums
oR5XL TIL Heath Ledger was inspired by ventriloquist performances for his Joker voice and aimed to make his fighting style appear erratic. Also, Ledger spent months creating a "Joker diary," with images and elements he believed would resonate with his character, such as finding the disease AIDS humorous.
Lk7nV TIL Stanley Kubrick attempted to take an insurance policy out on Space Odyssey 2001 in case NASA's Mariner IV probe discovered Martians during its flyby of Mars and rendered his movie obsolete. It was too expensive so he took a chance.
bRb7 TIL of Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer during WWII who volunteered to go to Auschwitz to document the genocide and fought in the Warsaw Uprising only to be executed by the Soviets