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TIL Summer on Uranus lasts 47 years, and so does winter

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yQ5kw TIL that the director/writter of the movie “Dogma” Kevin Smith went to a catholic protest at a movie theater against his own movie and even got interviewed by a local news reporter
0d9w1 TIL there are "only" 20.5 million shipping crates in existence to supply 8 billion people
kOvQ4 Today I learned that Rick Riordan hated the Percy Jackson movies so much, he wrote a letter warning teachers not to show them in class
Me5yA TIL the expression "avoid like the plague" originates from priest and theologian Saint Jerome (c. 347–420), who wrote, "Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.” Back then, clergymen were also politicians.
v1MNj TIL about slip coaches, which was part of the British rail service that offered passengers rides to smaller, less serviced stations. It would work by allowing the slip coach to detach from the train while it was moving at speed and would then drift into the station to allow passengers to disembark.