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TIL Victorians didn't actually cover table legs because they were too 'sexy'

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RvG6 TIL NASA wants to establish a floating cloud city to study Venus. The innovative concept involves helium-filled, solar-powered airships, which could contribute to humans permanently occupying the atmosphere of the hottest planet in our solar system.
LDb9 TIL there is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans
8mjX TIL scientists believe dolphins can effectively send each other “images” via echolocation by recreating the sound profile an object.
e0RND TIL FDR’s face is on the dime because of a foundation he started for polio patients by having people mail dimes to the White House, now known as the March of Dimes
LkrbV TIL The 45th Infantry Division Wore a Swastika on Their Uniforms