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TIL each day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus (243 earth days vs 225)

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Wk8rL TIL that ELO's first album, which was titled 'The Electric Light Orchestra', was released in the USA under the name 'No Answer'; someone had called a United Artists Records executive to ask about the album name, and after failing to reach a contact, wrote 'no answer' in his notes
v1jxj TIL Fuel-Air bombs make you suffer: The intense pressure wave and vacuum ruptures your lungs but "causes minimal damage to brain tissue…it is possible that victims...are not rendered unconscious by the blast, but instead suffer for several seconds or minutes while they suffocate"
ANr4x TIL that the world's oldest drivable car as of 2011 is the La Marquise which was first built in 1884
OobXL TIL there is an extinct species of bandicoot whose scientific name is 'Crash Bandicoot'
E1GxW TIL After the Success of Atari 2600 games. Quaker Oats released 13 games for Atari 2600.