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TIL Martian sunsets are blue

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oRNrW TIL that in World War II, shortly after Pearl Harbor, Japan actually captured and held a couple of the westernmost Aleutian Islands in Alaska for about a year. Retaking them was a battle with more than 1000 casualties on either side.
JvBQ TIL that the last serving soldier drafted during the Vietnam war didn’t retire until 2014
Z8kYY TIL dogs and cats are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the United States. That equates to roughly 64 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.
grMJD TIL 19th century French utopian socialist Pierre Leroux advocated the system of Circulus, which proposed human excrement to be collected as a tax by the state to be reused as fertiliser
yOap TIL that the youngest person to ever become pregnant and give birth was 5 years old.