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

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Xlp8 TIL that mothers produce different breast milk recipes depending on whether they have had a son or a daughter
47Mo TIL that of over 7,300 U.S. state legislators, only one, a Nebraskan, is openly atheistic
ElKP TIL A man who survived 5 concentration camps convinced Hasbro to start producing Transformers, also holds over 100 other patents, the best-known of which gave him the exclusive right in the United States to detect and display hole cards in poker games.
o1Lr TIL that before Alcoa could build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland, the government had to certify that the area was “elf-free”.
N7Xj8 TIL about presyncope, a medical condition many people have in which their vision goes black for a brief time after standing up.