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TIL that a year on Venus is shorter than a day on Venus

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R7w09 TIL of Thierville, France, unique in that there is no local war memorial. Starting from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, through both World Wars, the First Indochina War (1946-54) & Algerian War (1954-62), all the soldiers from Thierville who took part in those conflicts came home alive.
4XV45 TIL that the late Rick Jolly, a British Army surgeon in the Falklands conflict, saved every life under his care, both British and Argentine. He was the only man decorated by both Britain and Argentina for his services in the war.
E8P7 TIL Uganda once had a bisexual king who would demand sex from his male subjects. If they refused, they would be executed.
Lpd9 TIL that a volcano trapped some salt water sardines, sharks and sea snakes in a lake. Over centuries the animals adapted and evolved to form new species, the world’s only fresh water sardines, sharks and sea snakes.
bD99 TIL OJ Simpson was nearly cast as the Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.