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TIL about 55 Cancri e. A hellish "diamond planet" twice as big as Earth where a year lasts 18 hours, has an ocean of molten lava on one side, and a crushing pressure that turns a large portion of its carbon interior into diamond.

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PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
Br47r TIL when animals are depicted on flags, they face left (the hoist) by default as they would in the wind
LLG9 TIL that in 1964, a man placed himself in a box and had himself air-freighted from London to Australia because he couldn’t afford the airfare. He nearly died of dehydration.
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