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TIL the atmosphere on Venus is so dense that 4 probes landed softly without parachutes or rockets

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r9dM TIL that a British teenager faced probation after he took part in a demonstration against the Church of Scientology and claiming that it was a ‘cult’, with police confiscating his 'cult’ placard.
VM67G TIL The north pole of the planet is actually a magnetic south pole right now, but it is still referred to as “magnetic north” to correspond with our geographic measurements
Z81vD TIL The DEA raided Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate in 1987. It removed the poppy plants that had been planted continually there since Jefferson was alive and using opium from them.
yV5XJ TIL that the animals killed by the south east asian poison blowgun called sumpit, is safe to eat.
OolY4 TIL about Project A119, a plan by American scientists and the Air Force to nuke the moon in a show of force during the Space Race. They also thought that dropping a bomb would allow them to be able to accurately study previously mysterious lunar properties