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TIL That there’s a tv channel in America named “History” and airs a show about Aliens shaping human civilization.

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gMMpW A circumhorizontal arc often called a fire rainbow, is an optical phenomenon in which an ice halo forms by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name. When the sun is very high in the sky, sunlight entering flat, hexagon-shaped ice crystals get split into individual colours just like in a prism.
B6oL TIL: When Isaac Asimov was bullied in school because of his genius, he came up with a plan. He helped the biggest, dumbest kid with his homework, and got that kid to defend him.
j9GQ TIL that Brides normally stand on the left of the Groom at a wedding so that his sword hand is free to defend against any other suitors
X0LE TIL In Finland, speeding tickets are determined by the driver’s annual income and a man once received a $200,000 fine
Y7D5r TIL that the 1994 film “The Mask,” was based on a much more violent comic book. The protagonist, Stanley Ipkiss, goes on a revenge spree, murders a number of cops, and is eventually shot in the back and killed by his girlfriend, Kathy, who sees the Mask for what it is, and plans to destroy it.