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TIL Venus spins the opposite direction as the other planets in our solar system and may have been a drifting planet we “adopted”.

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4X0Xw TIL only 6% of high school players go on to play college football. Only 1.7% of college football players get drafted in the NFL. That means only 0.08% of high school football players will go pro.
e0vg5 Today I learned, baby blankets are not safe for babies under 1 yr. old to sleep with.
7rNnb TIL there's a good amount of evidence suggesting that ageing and likelihood of dying kind of plateaus at about 105 years of age - Late-life Mortality Deceleration.
oRKOL TIL that dueling scars were seen as such a "mark of class" and honor in Germany and Austria, that some students who did not fence would scar themselves with razors in imitation
9m0G TIL there are less than 100 Javan rhinos left in the entire world, and they are all located in one national park.