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TIL Neptune has the strongest winds in the Solar System: 2,100 km/hour

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4k48a TIL that fuzzy ants are actually wasps, but are still called ants.
MK8W TIL India’s richest person, Mukesh Ambani, built a $1 billion home. It has 27 habitable floors, including six parking floors for capacity of up to 168 cars. A staff of 600 maintain the home.
4XAJJ TIL federal prisoners in Brazil can reduce their sentence by 4 days per book they read and write an essay on. They can read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science or classics to trim a maximum 48 days off their sentence each year.
ANKva TIL in 1998, the FBI sought to extract DNA from the cigarette butts smoked in 1971 by the unidentified airline hijacker known only as D.B. Cooper, but discovered the butts had been destroyed while in the custody of the Las Vegas field office.
v1gWx TIL that Alfred Hitchcock was known to play elaborate pranks on his colleagues. One night he hosted a dinner party and dyed all the dishes blue because "there aren't enough blue foods."