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TIL the Star Trek franchise has a total runtime of about a month.

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d8LVE TIL that the Roman Emperor Nero was publicly married to a freed male slave. Nero was the bride.
yQwRa TIL that a Cantonese phrase used by parents upset by their kids is that "it'd be better to have given birth to barbecued pork instead of you". It comes from the use of meal tickets in 1950s China in which meat tickets were highly priced and barbecued pork was a luxury.
awR1A Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out, you wouldn't even make it halfway.
R5xa1 TIL that a giant Publix birthday cake serves as the water tower for Lakeland, FL. Built in the 1980s the tower stands at 146 ft tall and delivers 250k gallons of water per minute.
LQkbv TIL a 2010 survey showed that there were no Italian-born people living in Manhattan's Little Italy, and only 5% of the neighborhood's residents identified as Italian-American.