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TIL the length of a day on Mars has been known to the nearest 3 minutes since 1666. But the exact length of a day on Saturn remained a mystery until 2019.

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Wkev8 TIL Scientists managed to edit human embryos, freeing them from a piece of faulty DNA which caused a deadly heart disease that ran in families. The embryos were allowed to develop for 5 days before they stopped the experiment.
yVNXv TIL Dave Grohl is a self taught Barbecue Pit-master who has succumbed to Brisket Addiction which effects 1 in 3 males in Texas. Because of this addiction he didn’t realize how much meat he was actually smoking yesterday and started giving it away. “I just wanted a Pulled Pork Sandwich.” /s
XEZNj TIL France was the first Weatern European Country to decriminalize homosexuality way back in 1791. The man who presented it, Louis-Michel le Peletier, stated that only "true crimes" ought to be punished, and not "superstition"
E1MPW TIL Italians have an unleavened flatbread called Piadina
7aGX TIL the NYPD operates in 11 foreign cities, including London, Lyons, Hamburg, Tel Aviv and Toronto