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TIL - A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. It takes 243 Earth days to rotate on its axis once, but only 225 to rotate around the sun.

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VDwm TIL of the Ocoee Massacre, on election day 1920 over 50 to 60 African Americans were killed when one African American man attempted to vote.
DVBV TIL that there is a surviving fantasy novel written in the 2nd century AD that features explorers flying to the moon, a first encounter with aliens, interplanetary war between imperialistic celestial kingdoms, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean
njyb TIL the hubble telescope discovered a galaxy so big that it shouldn’t exist according to modern physics
PKyE TIL that Ben Affleck was as disappointed by Daredevil as the rest of us, calling it the only movie he actually regrets.
8aEQK TIL the kid’s show “Arthur” is still in production. The most recent episode that came out was in June of this year, and Season 21 is slated to come out next year.