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TIL there are no current statistics on religion in Tanzania. Home to many faiths, its census hasn’t asked about religion since 1967 in order to avoid fights over which was the biggest.

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E18pw TIL 33% of millennials buy their first house to give their dog more space, compared to just 19% for a new baby.
WkDVd TIL: Fashionable women have been dying their hair pink as early as the 1910's
gEQA TIL of Starfish. A 60’s US military experiment designed to see what would happen when a nuke was detonated 250 miles above Earth’s magnetic pole. It resulted in an EMP 900 miles wide, an intense artificial aurora, and a radiation belt that disabled 1/3 of the low orbit satellites and lasted 5 years.
ayEy TIL Linnaeus included in his classification of all living beings the class of Animalia Paradoxa, which are animals that are clearly made-up, such as the phoenix, the unicorn, and the pelican
0wlWj TIL Current theory is Venus initially spun anticlockwise. In a way, still does, but upside down. It flipped its axis 180 degrees at some point. Theory: Sun's gravitational pull on Venus' atmosphere caused strong atmospheric tides that combined w/ friction between Venus' mantle and core, flipping it.