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TIL The First Japanese Convert To Christianity Was A Murderer On The Run

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neOyB TIL: In 1935 George S. Patton led an operation to bomb erupting Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa to divert lava flow from the city of Hilo.
yQ8ww TIL the sunset on Mars is blue instead of red like planet Earth.
9YD77 TIL about Utah’s ‘otherworldly’ Cinamon Hadley — ballerina, goth queen and comic book character. The woman who inspired the look of the DC Comics character known as DEATH, by creator Neil Gaiman.
QJQe6 TIL A university called 42 is free, doesn’t care about SAT scores and wants to educate 10,000 students within the next 5 years. When the French President visited the campus in Paris there were students sleeping on the floor in the hallway
OQWL TIL of “Abortion Doping”, a rumoured practice where female athletes get pregnant, use the hormonal benefits for their performance, and abort the pregnancy.