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TIL that a day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus (it takes 243 days for it to rotate on itself and 225 to complete its revolution)

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ZpmKB TIL that the reason mint tastes cold is that menthol activates a protein called TRPM8 in your nerve cells that normally respond to cold. It is the only food that does do. (Although capsaicin, similarly, activates a different protein, VR1, that senses heat.)
BaYe TIL that Charles Dickens grew up during a ‘Little Ice Age’ and hence it snowed for each of his first 8 Christmases influencing his writing and hence today’s tradition of a 'White Christmas’.
OLR7 TIL The atoms that make up your body are mostly empty space, and if you lost all your empty atomic space, your body would fit into a cube less than 1/500th of a centimetre on each side.