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TIL that despite Saturn being 8 times further from the Sun than the Earth, it also has an Aurora Borealis but is only visible by ultraviolet light.

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Z8LQv TIL in the 1800s Louisiana had the only state lottery system in America. It drew controversy for selling tickets across state lines and lost 90% of its revenue when interstate lottery sales were banned in 1890.
YpBZ7 TIL the CIA offered funding to artists Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and de Kooning so that their abstract work would show how free artists were in the United States compared to the rigid work of the Soviet Union.
Wp88 TIL that the two pilots on a british airways flight can’t order the same meal for safety reasons
eppXJ TILT there were (twin) pregnancies wherein the more developed kid pumps blood for both the twins (acardiac and cardiac), and the acardiac twin cannot reciprocate it in any way, therefore causing cardiac failure in the developed one.
J1Q7m TIL: Astronauts who come back from the moon have to go through customs