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TIL the sunset on Mars is blue.

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loga7 TIL that the popular 90s sitcom Family Matters was a spin-off of a popular 80s sitcom, Perfect Strangers.
5YwdP TIL that in 1920, U.S. Mint employee Orville Harrington stole an estimated $80,000 in gold by methodically hiding the bars in his hollow wooden leg.
awaXJ TIL there is an enduring mystery about who wrote Black Betty (bam-a-lam), and what "Black Betty" stood for. It was first recorded in 1933, using black Texas prisoners.
wLr06 TIL of Ken Banks, a Queensland man who set up a "retirement home" for birds who outlive their owners, at one count housing at least 1,600 birds including a cockatoo in its 90s. He prefers not to sell birds but rather swap with breeders or give birds to people after teaching how to care for them.
Wk4k9 TIL in ancient Greece throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal