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TIL - Venus is the only planet that doesn't spin counterclockwise

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QJNka TIL that a man built and planted an extremely complex bomb in a Nevada Casino - the FBI could not disarm it, and the controlled detonation blew up most of the Casino.
nWl6o TIL desertification and food production trends in the Mongolian Plateau and in northern, central, and southern China have paralleled the rise, decline, and collapse of China’s historical dynasties
7r7N7 TIL in 1817 an English man named Abraham Thornton successfully avoided a murder charge by demanding "trial by battle." It turned out that the practice was still technically allowed under the law despite having not been used for hundreds of years. Parliament finally abolished it one year later.
XAmk TIL for learning the mohawk language and documenting it in the field of lingustics, Alexander Graham Bell was given the title of “honorary chief”.
vPaGD TIL of Kyle Maynard, an American speaker, author and mixed martial arts athlete, known for becoming the first quadruple amputee to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro without the aid of prosthetics.