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W7JXL TIL I a Venus day is longer than a Venus year (243 days vs. 225 days)
yQdQ8 TIL: Lack of exposure to infections is a likely cause of cancer in children.
AD4Yx TIL That the victims of Pompeii had near-perfect dental health due to a low-sugar diet and a local water source rich in fluorine.
Yx0Z TIL in Poker, Anna Kournikova is the name for A-K starting hand. So called because “it looks great but doesn’t win anything”.
v1o9D TIL Ida B. Wells won a Pulitzer Prize last year (2020) "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching", 89 years after she died.