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You can see the coronavirus from space, well kind of.

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6ED4Z TIL each day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus (243 earth days vs 225)
XEjBD TIL: When Andrew Jackson became president of the USA, he was given a two-ton wheel of cheese as a gift from a farmer in New York. He left it in the White House foyer for a year and at his farewell party, he let everyone take as much as they wanted of it, leaving Jackson with barely any leftover.
nWoRY TIL the dab was made illegal in Saudi Arabia
X0EvR TIL that of the 24 Franklin Counties in the United States, Franklin County, Idaho, is the only one that is not named after Benjamin Franklin; it is named after Franklin D. Richards, an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
WkNn8 TIL The Maori word for France is Wīwī - a play on the French 'oui, oui'