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TIL there is ice on the surface of Mercury despite it being the closest planet to the sun in our solar system and therefore one of the hottest

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p86P8 TIL walruses can give themselves oral along with a few other animals
e01Ok TIL that Vin Diesel started his career as not just an actor, but a writer, producer, and director as well. In 1994 he made a short film that screened at Cannes, and in 1997 he made a feature that played at Sundance.
jDZa TIL that Fruit Roll-Ups, in compliance with a false advertising suit, cannot display fruit imagery on their packages if the flavor doesn’t actually contain that fruit.
dDa9j TIL General Robert E. Lee was pardoned for treason by President Gerald R. Ford
9wA4G TIL that Eric Schmitt of Missouri is the 2000th senator to ever serve in the United States Senate. The next Senator to be sworn in will be the 2003rd Senator since the inception of the Upper house of the US congress.