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TIL a day on planet Venus lasts longer than a Venusian year

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GYEa7 TIL during filming of The Toast of New Orleans, Mario Lanza kept trying to french kiss Kathryn Grayson which was made even worse by his garlic breath. Costume designer Helen Rose sewed brass into Grayson's gloves, so that anytime Lanza tried to kiss her, she hit him with the brass-filled glove.
XdyP TIL cranberries don’t grow in bogs. The fields are flooded during picking to make mass harvesting more efficient as the berries float above their vines.
0d1Z5 TIL that American football was invented in Canada
vgmj TIL if we eliminated all mosquitoes there would be little ecological damage aside from the loss of chocolate, of which mosquitoes are the main pollinator
jNd8R TIL The last person to be convicted of blasphemy in the United States was an Arkansas man who in 1928 put a sign in his storefront reading, "Evolution Is True. The Bible's a Lie. God's a Ghost." He spent 3 months in jail.