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Great Red Spot’s days are numbered and it’s possible that it could be entirely gone within our lifetimes.

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e0kAg TIL that all astronauts going to the International Space Station are required to learn Russian, which can take up to 1100 class hours for English language speakers
4g8o TIL All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye’s lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
QN4Gd TIL that conjoined twins have been documented for thousands of years, and that there are 5 common types of conjoined twins and 11 rarer types.
p1NA TIL: Hacker, Kevin Mitnick, spent eight months in solitary confinement after law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to “start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone.”
p8EoN TIL that there is a species of velvet spider where the mothers liquefy their internal organs to regurgitate for their spiderlings to eat. Once the mother is no longer able to regurgitate, the young eat her.