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TIL of Klaatu, the Band Everyone Thought Was The Beatles

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9wWrm TIL: National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is the oldest civil rights organization in the country. It was found in 1880 and is older than NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
J1j61 TIL A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. Venus rotates only once in 243 Earth days, and its year is 225 Earth-days long. And, it rotates east to west, the opposite of Earth. So on Venus, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
M7jXW TIL that several countries outside of the U.S call American football "Gridiron"
E17Pd TIL that even though humans are quite numerous inhabitants of the earth, we are outnumbered by chickens by a bit more than 3 times and we are still rapidly increasing their numbers.
nZJW TIL when a Pacific tribe watched the US military perform drills to prepare for supply planes, the tribe believed it to be a religious ritual and built their own runways, coconut headphones, wooden radio towers, and marched around like the soldiers, in hopes of having a plane drop supplies off.