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TIL that a day in Venus (rotation) is actually longer than a year (orbiting the sun).

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rR6w4 TIL Southern California Edison is only now starting to replace bare power lines with insulated power lines in high wildfire risk areas.
5K9n TIL new queen bees make a “piping” sound to announce their presence to other queens in the hive – and signal their intent to kill them all.
9p4X TIL Major General Ray Smith, USMC (Ret) had multiple kills in Vietnam with an entrenching tool (small shovel).
jNwMv TIL About Blue Lake Rhino Cave in Washington State that is the 14.5 million year old cast of an early Rhino ancestor created when basalt lava slowly covered the corpse floating upside down in an ancient lake found 300 feet up the side of a cliff.
ENw7 TIL that seven states in the US ban atheists from holding public office. Which is unconstitutional, but still on the books.