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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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mxgOp TIL about the Zambian Space Program of the 1960’s whose goal was going to Mars with a “Spacegirl”, two cats, and a Christian missionary.
KO6MR TIL in 2008 a man at a ski resort in Italy stole a rubber padding used on a barrier to stop people at the bottom of a sledding hill. He used the padding to sled down the hill, hitting the barrier that he stole the padding from and died.
W76J8 TIL that human's brains are inherently wired to put more focus on the negative than the positive in what Psychologists refer to as "negativity bias."
XJp8 TIL there is a condition known as Smoking Stool Syndrome, resulting from severe Phosphorus poisoning, known for making people’s defecate give off smoke as though burning.
a8BP9 TIL nine members of the Nepalese royal family were murdered in a mass shooting perpetrated by the Crown Prince Dipendra, before he turned the gun on himself and attempted suicide. He was left in a coma, during which he was declared King, before he died three days later.