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TIL that a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
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TIL that M. Night Shyamalan was writing the fourth Indiana Jones movie. He left, claiming it was difficult to get Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to focus.
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TIL designer Coco Chanel was a Nazi spy and was directly involved in a plan for the Third Reich to take control of Madrid
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TIL Dogs have much more expressive faces than wolves. Dogs make an effort to make eye contact with humans and have notably high control over their eyebrows when compared to wolves. Looking into a dog's eyes has comparable results to a parent looking at their child.
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TIL the Maltese language is descended from the time of Muslim Arab control over Malta a millennium ago. The Arab language survived Christian reconquest, but disconnected from the Arab world, absorbed Italian/Sicilian/English vocabulary, evolving into Maltese today. It is written with Latin script.
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TIL of George Trepal of Polk County Florida. A recluse & an oddball, he poisoned his neighbors, killing the mother, by tampering bottles of Coke with thallium in 1988. He was irritated by loud music & noises by the teenage sons, the reason for doing the poisoning. He is awaiting the death row.