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TIL A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It rotates incredibly slowly on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days, while it completes an orbit around the Sun in around 225 Earth days.

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Oo04 TIL A Finnish sports brand Karhu Sports sold the three stripe trademark to Adidas for (the equivalent of) €1,600 euros and two bottles of Whiskey.
DQ9yJ TIL Cynisca/Kyniska was a Spartan princess in ancient Greece who personally trained horses and- approximately at the age of 40- went on to become the first woman to win an Olympic game as a charioteer. Her victory likely had a great impact on the Olympic and led to more women participating.
jLmX TIL Major Donnie Dunagan was the Marines’ youngest-ever drill instructor & served 3 tours in Vietnam, where he was wounded several times. He received the Bronze Star & the Purple Heart 3 times. For his entire Marine Corps service, he kept a secret that no one knew– he was the voice of Disney’s Bambi
ONyL TIL most of the gold ever mined is still in circulation today. That gold ring or watch that you’re wearing, could have been from several ancient-historic figures such as Cleopatra or Alexander the Great
BrPnW TIL in 1963 Italian engineers underestimated the effects of a controlled landslide they’d planned, resulting in a shockwave 2x the intensity of Hiroshima, instantly pulverizing thousands of people & causing a 820ft tsunami to travel down a mountain, turning the town beneath to a “large muddy crater”