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TIL Jupiter is shrinking by about 2 cm each year because the planet radiates more heat than it receives from the Sun.

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Yd17 TIL dogs percieve humans differently from themselves, but cats do not. Cats treat humans like they would treat another cat.
W7LgY TIL deer antlers are “the fastest growing structures in the animal kingdom”
yVe7v TIL that after scientists sequenced the genome of a tiger they found that it shares 95.6% of its DNA with the domestic cat, from which it diverged 10.8 million years ago.
AN7J7 TIL of the proposed Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, whose 100m aperture would have allowed it to see objects 1500x fainter than the Hubble Telescope and analyze extrasolar planets for molecules indicating life. It was cancelled due to the €1.5 billion cost being too high
jL8N TIL There is a infant herpes outbreak in NYC, due to the Orthodox Jewish tradition known as oral suction circumcision