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TIL on the planet Venus, it snows metal including Lead and Bismuth

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kwP5 TIL that the longest overdue book was late by 288 years
j5PM TIL the first president of Zimbabwe was named President Banana
E1Mwo TIL that the guns of the HMS Belfast, moored on the River Thames, are permanently aimed at a London Gateway Services, a motorway service station some 11.7 miles away
oB9YL TIL In 1945, a woman was found with a knife in her neck and bullet wound to the head. A message in lipstick was left on the walls "For heavens sake, catch me before I kill more, I cannot control myself"
aKmJ TIL Dr. Barry Marshall was convinced that H. pylori bacteria causes stomach ulcers, but no one believed him. Since it was illegal to test this theory on humans, he drank the bacteria himself, developed ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics, and went on to win a Nobel Prize.