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TIL it snows metal on Venus

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OGD0Y TIL in 1998, a group that was aiming to save historic properties started renovating Ben Franklin's London home. In the process, they found a hidden, no-window room beneath his garden that had the remains of fifteen individuals.
7eML TIL NASA often shows the movie “Armageddon” as part of its management training program and asks its new staff to find as many scientific-inaccuracies as they can (there are at least 168).
Wkrx8 TIL that the modern seven-day week originated with the ancient Babylonians, for whom each day was associated with one of the seven planetary deities.
BgNmK Today I learned that ponytails can cause migraines to those who wear them, because of the tension of the hair that pulls the skin of the head.
EXxw TIL it’s possible to be declared brain-dead falsely because most physicians look at the brain stem, which controls heart and lung functions, but not the cortex, which coordinates consciousness