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TIL Venus has phases like the Moon

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yQb1X TIL that Clara Peller, the actress behind the "Where's the beef?" slogan, had her contract with Wendy's terminated after she appeared in a tomato sauce commercial in which she said "I found it". Wendy's executive Denny Lynch stated, "Clara can find the beef only in one place, and that is Wendy's".
0wVGA TIL former Savage Garden vocalist Darren Hayes became an improv comic in 2013 after studying at The Groundlings Theatre.
aEO9 TIL that in 1976, both Republicans and Democrats signed a Declaration of Interdependence stating that “exploitation of the poor by the rich, and the weak by the strong violates our common humanity” and “resources of the globe are finite, not infinite”
Yp0EG TIL Joan of Arc asked King Charles VII to exempt her village from taxes “forever.” this was upheld for over 300 years until the French Revolution happened and the promise was forgotten.
JYmQ TIL that MIT students have a history of some of the most awesome pranks that have ever been pulled, including hacking the lighting system of one building on campus and rigging it so that they could play Tetris using the windows as tiles.