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TIL winter lasts 21 years on Uranus.

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woEDE TIL: Chuck Feeney (who died today) donated over $8B over his lifetime, nearly the entirety of his wealth, and mostly anonymously
gAZW TIL that Liverpool was once the “Second City of The British Empire” and for periods in the 19th century its wealth even eclipsed that of London.
d8GjE TIL: J.R.R Tolkien was rejected for a Nobel Prize, in 1961, on the grounds of his poor storytelling.
b9bw4 TIL: There are clear grand pianos. They're made of acrylic plastic. The Kawai CR-40 "Crystal Grand" is said to cost a quarter-million dollars according to one reviewer --though that's before haggling and discount codes. (At least the case and legs are clear; the interior workings aren't.)
j68Av TIL that the official cause of Houdini's death on Halloween in 1926 was diffuse peritonitis; this is the result of a burst appendix. J. Gordon Whitehead's sucker punch did not cause his death because Houdini died 6 days later after the punch, and it was caused from a bacterial infection.