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TIL That the US considered dyeing Mt. Fuji black in WWII as pyschological warfare against the Japanese

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9KbM TIL the prune industry asked the FDA to relabel prunes as “dried plums” because “prunes” weren’t selling. It worked.
a8VrM TIL that at the Battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809, one of the French Generals was decapitated, while he was talking to a friend.
V6B0 TIL: In 2009, the President and Cabinet of the Maldives held a meeting underwater - in SCUBA gear - to sign a declaration calling for global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives is expected to disappear under rising seawater this century.
OoV51 TIL In 1924 George Mallory may have been the first person to reach the summit of Everest. He was last seen 800ft from summit but never returned. He carried a picture of his wife with him that he said he would leave at the summit which he did not have when his body was found 75 years later.
d8BeE TIL that in 2029 a huge asteroid will come so close to the hitting the earth that it will be visible to the naked eye. This asteroid may still hit our planet in 2068.