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TIL that Venus could have had habitable conditions for billions of years. Long enough for life to have developed.

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Z11p TIL that Amy Van Dyken, a 6-times Olympic gold medalist swimmer, has been an asthmatic her whole life, proving that children with asthma can grow to be olympic-level athletes!
V9RQ TIL in 1927, Calvin Coolidge walked outside of his vacation home to waiting reporters, handed them a slip of paper that said, “I do not choose to run for President in nineteen-twenty-eight.”, took no questions, and went back inside.
E1jEd TIL of William Lyttle, the "Mole Man of Hackney", who spent around 40 years digging a network of tunnels up to 59 feet (18 m) long beneath his home. When the authorities discovered the extent of his burrowing, he was rehoused on the top floor of a high-rise to prevent digging.
OGDQ6 TIL Clint Eastwood had two country music hits in the '80s, one of which was called "Make My Day"
e0NRb TIL The country of Swaziland renamed itself Eswatini in 2018.