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TIL Venus' day is longer than its year and rotates backwards.

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eawE TIL Supermassive Black Holes in the centers of galaxies can be 11 times bigger than Neptune’s entire orbit, and spin at almost the speed of light.
d897j TIL Ballooning is a process by which spiderlings and even some species of adult spiders move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads from their spinnerets to catch the wind becoming airborne sometimes for long distances and great heights at the mercy of air and electric currents.
6kmZ TIL of James “Shanghai” Kelly, who in the 1800s kidnapped men and forced them to work on ships. One year on his birthday he announced he was hosting a free “booze cruise” to celebrate, served opium-laced whiskey to the attendees, then offloaded them onto waiting ships and got 100 men in one night
Gm7j TIL that Sean Baker, a Military Policeman at Guantanamo Bay, was ordered to impersonate a prisoner in a secret training mission for US Soldiers to practice extracting uncooperative inmates from their cells. He was beaten so hard he suffered from major seizures caused by traumatic brain injury.
m1WMR TIL that playing simple, repetitive games like Tetris directly after a traumatic experience can prevent the development of PTSD and reduce overall stress