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TIL Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate clockwise.

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pYGZQ TIL Tanzanians like albinos a little too much.... Tanzanian children with albinism are hunted for their body parts, as they believe the bones hold a kind of magic that will bring success and fortune
QNRyd TIL during the Irish Famine (1845-1849), under the ruling British Government, huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation.
Lkdxr TIL about the Holodomor (death inflicted by starvation) which refers to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians during 1932-1933 caused by soviet policies. Private farms were destroyed and were replaced by collectivized farms. We remember this event on the fourth Saturday of every November.
49r5 TIL every time Pac-Man eats a regular dot, he stops moving for one frame (1/60th of a second), slowing his progress by roughly ten percent—just enough for a following ghost to overtake him.
0dbVL TIL that in 2024 a construction company built an entire family home on the wrong lot in Hawaii after miscounting the number of telephone poles on the land. They then sold the home without the landowner knowing.