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TIL that despite strong intolerance of gays, Pakistan leads in world for gay porn searches

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NwRJ TIL that people without light stimulation from the sun (i.e. in a cave) tend to have a 48 hour sleep-wake cycle
WkrE4 TIL Mercury is actually closer to Earth than Venus and Mars (mostly). And same applies to the sun and all planets in the Solar System.
ABlB TIL in the coconuts used as “horses” in Monty Python and the Holy Grail didn’t start out as a joke - they decided to use them because the film didn’t have the budget for actual horses.
NXE7Q TIL that NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the fastest object ever built. It is estimated to reach a top speed of 191 km/s (430,000 mph) in 2025, 0.064% the speed of light.
RZ1a TIL that the only deaths to have occurred in space thus far were in 1971, when 3 Soviet cosmonauts fell victim to a catastrophic decompression of their return module. The module executed a perfect automated landing, without a living person on-board.