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TIL that Mars will form rings in around 100 million years.

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8aV6b TIL that for over 3 decades, Canada and Denmark have been playfully fighting for control of a tiny island near Greenland called Hans Island. Every once in a while, when officials from each country visit, they leave a bottle of their country's liquor.
yNkM TIL The W Virg.coal mining strike of 1912 became open warfare between the company and miners. The company quarantined the mining village, intentionally starving to death women and children. Main demand was company discontinue corrupt coal weighing and stop Stealing wages.
e0NP4 TIL After her husband was executed by the King of France, Jeanne de Clisson set off on a quest of piracy and bloody justice. She would personally behead any aristocrats on board captures ships with her ax.
mNBE TIL John Kellogg (the cereal tycoon) founded the Race Betterment Foundation, an organization which planned to sterilize minorities in the U.S
AN0En TIL that Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judaea at the time of Jesus, minted his own coins in 29-31 AD.