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

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NVZM TIL after the french revolution, France briefly used a new calendar based on a decimal system; 10 days a week, 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute, and starting at Year 1.
4Gvw TIL A zip bomb, also known as a zip of death or decompression bomb, is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. 42.zip was 42kilobytes when compressed but increased to 4.5 petabytes when decompressed.
nePl7 TIL that Sai, traditional eastern asian weapons, were actually more similar in usage to bludgeoning weapons than to daggers - The middle part of a Sai isn't even pointy!
W74Z8 TIL that Plants Emit Ultrasonic “Screams” When Stressed and Scientists Recorded Them.
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