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TIL that a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus
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TIL in 1988 Cosmopolitan claimed that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection and that it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.
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TIL that the lily plant is incredibly toxic to cats and if they ingest any part of it they have an almost 100% mortality rate. Even the flower's pollen getting in their fur or water can kill cats.
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TIL Ida B. Wells won a Pulitzer Prize last year (2020) "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching", 89 years after she died.
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TIL that two identical twins were adopted by separate families, but both were called Jim, married women named Linda, got divorced and married women named Betty, both named their dogs Toy, and much more.
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TIL fine sugar particles are extremely flammable. So much that they caught a silo on fire in Georgia, 2008. The fire reached about 4000 degrees Fahrenheit.