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TIL one of the moons of Mars (Phobos) orbits Mars much faster than Mars rotates, and completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes. From the surface of Mars it appears to rise in the west, move across the sky in 4 hours and 15 minutes, and set in the east, twice each Martian day.

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XEPLQ TIL Michael Moore made a late talk show pilot for Fox in the 90s, which guest Kevin Smith. He also had O.J. Simpson as a guest, his first interview after the trial and the audience booed both Moore and OJ. Fox scrapped the project and never aired the pilot, and the footage was never publicly shown.
J1Wpm TIL that you shouldn’t eat raw taro leaves… but in case you do by accident then a local home remedy is drinking hot tamarind water
rvZw TIL of the ‘cauliflower creak’, the sound of cauliflowers growing so fast you can hear the florets rubbing together.
QJQOE TIL that the town from the movie "Erin Brockovich" is still struggling from the same conditions that led to the original lawsuit.
R7bN4 TIL if you develop an aversion to a food you previously loved but vomited up even just one time after eating, that is called the Garcia Effect. This happens even if you know getting sick had nothing to do with the food you ate and instead was due to a virus.