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4kVPg Today I learned that on average, Mercury is the closest planet to ALL other planets.
Z870D TIL before the age of alarm clocks, there was a job known as the “knocker up” where a man would tap on someones window with a long pole until they were awake. Often factories would hire men to ensure they made it to the knocker up position on time.
E1jDw TIL hospitals legally have to show you their prices up front if you ask, this means you can go to different hospitals and get their rates for proceeders before having said proceeder.
N7jX1 TIL Huygens, an ESA spacecraft, was launched from Earth on October 15, 1997 to land successfully on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. That's 1.2 billion kilometers. Its six instruments gathered atmospheric data and continued sending it 90min after touchdown.
W5kd TIL that Christopher Walken was one of the last people to ever see Natalie Wood alive and hired a lawyer when the case surrounding her death was re-opened in 2011. Upon re-opening the case, as well as an additional subsequent re-opening of it in 2012, the police stated Walken was not a suspect.