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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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YNYZ TIL that In 2015, Facebook canceled Harvard student’s internship after he highlighted a massive privacy issue.
5Vojn TIL that the new bananas will appear to be growing upside-down due to a scientific phenomenon called negative geotropism
p8gw8 TIL that a cape made of Madagascar Golden Orb spider silk went on display in 2012 at the London V&A museum. 1.2 million spiders provided the silk and it took 8 years to create.
A7bo TIL A Native Canadian Tribe has successfully blocked Shell’s oil tar sands expansion with treaty protections signed in 1899
Ooxj1 TIL Kirkpatrick MacMillan, who invented the bicycle (disputed) also has the first recorded instance of a bicycle traffic offense, when he knocked over a pedestrian in Glasgow and was fined 5 shillings.