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TIL Floating cities above the clouds of Venus may be our best bet for becoming a two-planet species. Conditions there are so similar to Earth a human wouldn’t need a pressurized-suit, the gravity is similar and transit times are shorter than to Mars.

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6gBw TIL that the heads of suicide bombers are usually left intact, even though the rest of the body is blown to bits.
XEGeE TIL that Senator Jake Garn, who flew in the Space Shuttle in 1985, experienced the worst case of space sickness on record. Because of this, NASA jokingly uses a "Garn Scale" to measure reactions to space sickness, where "1.0 Garn" is the worst.
l7N71 TIL six-year-old Cao Qixian set a new women's world record by solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube in an average time of 5.97 seconds. She became the first female ever to achieve an average time of under 6 seconds.
5yLn TIL: Between 1940 and 1970 Harvard and Yale took nude photos of incoming freshmen
5xVQ TIL the “earthy” smell accompanied by rain comes from an organic compound produced by Actinobacteria found in soil