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

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GAMO1 TIL the movie '13 Going On 30' was renamed to 'Suddenly 30' in Australia because distributors thought Australians wouldn't understand the original title.
LQrXQ TIL Kellogg's cofounder John Kellogg ran a sanitarium in Battle Creek MI where his cereals were part of the patient's diet. Future competitor CW Post was a patient in 1891, settled in the same town and started selling his own knock-offs of Kellogg's cereals and even opened his own sanitarium in 1892
wLvX1 TIL in the US, the How It's Made segment 'Condoms' is instead replaced by a rerun of their 'Rubber Gloves' segment
VBvnG TIL that Mary Ellen Wilson (1864–1956) was a victim of child abuse whose case led to the creation of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the world’s first child protection agency. She suffered severe abuse by her foster parents and was rescued with help from Henry Bergh.
xyvD TIL that Michael Morton spent 25 years of a life sentence in prison for the murder of his wife. Finally after years of fighting for the rights to a DNA test on a bloody bandana found at the scene, he was exonerated by DNA evidence linking a known felon to the murder.