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TIL Martian sunsets are blue

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MeW TIL because humor comes from seeing things from a novel angle and self-deception reduces such angles, self-deceivers have a poorer sense of humor.
rNXO4 TIL that the traditional way of proposing to someone in Japan is about miso soup
aWYo TIL of “White Death”, a Finnish sniper in WW2, who holds the record for the most confirmed kills (505) in any major war. When asked what he felt when killing an enemy soldier, he responded, “The recoil.”
BNvy TIL in 1913, 4 year old Bobby Dunbar went missing, and police found him living as Bruce Anderson 8 months later. After jailing the kidnapper, he was returned to the Dunbar family. In 2004, DNA tests proved that he was, in fact, Bruce Anderson.
vPPXx TIL: Joachim von Ribbentropp, the Nazi ambassador to the United Kingdom, once almost knocked the king over by giving him a Nazi salute instead of a handshake