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TIL a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus

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ARp7 TIL that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was elected with 100% of the votes. The ballot listed only him. Citizens are allowed to cross out his name and write in a new one, but they must step outside the election booth to do so, and write down the new name in front of election officials.
x6AWb TIL that ABBA, one of the most successful bands of all time, found fame by winning an international song competition, "Eurovision", in 1974.
ADQd4 TIL of Dr. Frances Kelsey a female Canadian/American pharmacologist working for the FDA in the 1960s who stopped authorization of Thalidomide (a drug that caused the deformation in fetuses) saving countless children and also helping reform standards in the FDA/U.S against pharmaceutical companies
x6oN7 TIL that unlike most hybrid animals, pizzly bears (offspring of polar and grizzly bears) can successfully breed.
Dd4P TIL Teachers in NYC are so difficult to fire that when deemed unfit to teach they are often placed in rubber rooms where they serve the same hours they had working in schools.