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TIL Uranus generates more heat than it receives from the sun.

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Y7xNr TIL that when baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash, his teammate Manny Sanguillen was the only one of his teammates who did not attend the memorial service as he chose to dive into the shark-infested crash site to try to help retrieve the body.
AAj7 TIL that a 1997 poll showed that Americans thought NASA’s funding accounted for 20% of the federal budget. In fact, NASA has received one cent or less per every tax dollar since 1975. Currently, they receive a $.005 cents per dollar.
XEeX6 TIL the idiom "When my ship comes in" originated with sailors' wives who promised to pay off debts when the sailors' ships returned to port.
ep8r4 TIL Sir Anthony Hopkins, wanting to prepare for a role, unsuccessfully searched for a book in London bookshops. He found an abandoned, annotated copy on a bench. Two years later, he met the author — who revealed it was his own personal copy that had been lost in London!
G7k4 TIL There is a mythical animal from Asia called The Bonnacon that has curled horns and when startled sprays acidic dung