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TIL venus spins on its axis so slowly that the average human could easily out-walk it.

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LQv9m TIL of the Illusory Truth Effect which is when people will start to believe a lie if they hear it enough times simply because the "familiarity can over power rationality," causing something familiar to feel right.
AD9yB TIL the famous robocop posters was a painting and not a photograph
5YWyR TIL that a square-shaped building with a volume of 1.2 billion cubic meters could fit inside Earth's entire human population.
vPlWR TIL the Earth is moving thru the galaxy at 514,000 mph or 1/1300 the speed of light.
pYYGe TIL that 98% of electricity generation whether nuclear, coal, hydro, or wind - are all just different methods of spinning electromagnets. Solar is the only industrial- scale method that doesn’t use turbines of some kind.