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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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XELbE TIL Plato's dialogue "Timaeus" presents the shapes of the four elements. Earth would be a cube, air an octahedron, of water an icosahedron, and of fire a tetrahedron. The dodecahedron represents the shape of the universe
NkkQ TIL: 4chan created a feminist programming language called C Plus Equality. Some changes include renaming of “class” to “social_construct”, and the prohibition of “y” variables.
5YoNp TIL that a 2007 publication predicted the rise in SARS-CoV-like viruses from locations such as China and our lack of preparedness
wowdJ TIL that the Canonical Hours, the Christian divisions of the day for regular prayers, originated in Jewish prayer customs.
l4WV TIL Tété-Michel Kpomassie, a Togolese writer, fell in love with Greenland as a child because of the absence of snakes in the country, his biggest fear. Due to this, he ran away from home and after 12 years he finally reached Greenland. He then wrote a book about it called: “An African in Greenland”