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TIL there's been proposals to terraform Venus for a human colony since the 1960's, such as thinning the dense atmosphere to reduce the 450 °C surface temperature, setting up a system of orbital mirrors to give it Earth-like day/night cycle, and colliding it with an ice moon to fill it with water.

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x7R7 TIL the barking sounds heard at the beginning of Jane’s Addiction’s single “Been Caught Stealing” was the result of singer Perry Farrell’s dog in the vocal booth. He and his dog ran around the room and the dog started barking inside.
neJQG TIL that the pattern on dogs’ noses are unique to each dog. Like human fingerprints, no two are alike. Dog Nose Printing has already been adopted in some places in the United States to track lost dogs, as nose prints are a far more reliable method than dog tags for identification.
ogWA TIL that the Unabomber, the Shoe Bomber, the Atlanta Olympic Park bomber, the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and one of the Oklahoma City bombers are all incarcerated at the same prison.
aNgb TIL Robert Lopez, co-writer of Let It Go from Frozen, co-created and co-wrote Avenue Q and The Book Of Mormon, guest wrote a South Park episode, wrote four songs for the Scrubs episode My Musical, and is one of 12 people to have ever won EGOT: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.
oRpkY TIL that US Navy sailors in World War II drank torpedo juice, a blend of 180-proof grain alcohol fuel from a torpedo and pineapple juice. Despite the Navy's attempts to render the alcohol undrinkable, sailors still found ways around this to varying degrees of effectiveness.