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TIL we tried fracking with nukes in the 60s, and only stopped because the gas was too radioactive to use

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J1j61 TIL A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. Venus rotates only once in 243 Earth days, and its year is 225 Earth-days long. And, it rotates east to west, the opposite of Earth. So on Venus, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
rRnex TIL Kip Winger of the 80's hair-metal band Winger is today an accomplished ballet composer. He was even awarded an Isadora Duncan Award for Excellence in Music.
rNwl4 TIL "wigger" or "wigga" is a term for a white person of European ethnic origin who emulates the perceived mannerisms, language, and fashions associated with African-American culture, particularly hip hop
6Egdm TIL that despite spending half his career in the saddle, Clint Eastwood is allergic to horses.
KYQxG TIL about the Janzen–Connell hypothesis, a widely accepted mechanism that asserts that a forest with more diverse species of plants will prosper because the more common a plant species is, the more specialist enemies it attracts.