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TIL Venus has phases like the Moon

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JYQBV TIL a DC cop once gave President Grant a speeding ticket for driving his horse and buggy dangerously fast, this was prior to the invention of cars.
kp64 TIL Darren Aronofsky’s debut feature, Pi, was financed entirely from $100 donations from friends and family. In return, he promised to pay each donor back $150 if the film made money, and receive on-screen credit if the film lost money. On a budget of $60,000, the film grossed a total of $3,221,152.
Xyyr TIL that Larry Swearingen is on death row in Texas despite substantial evidence that he was in jail on traffic charges at the time of the crime.
Ypwnv TIL The Lake at the Bellagio Las Vegas is serviced by a freshwater well that was drilled decades prior to irrigate a golf course on the site. The lake actually uses less water than irrigating the Golf Course did.
a8wEy TIL about one of the first recorded non-binary people, the "Public Universal Friend"