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

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6MBm TIL that if everyone on earth was entitled to a free piece of land on the moon, we would each get just over an acre.
QJEYp TIL the phrase “No Spring Chicken”, originated in the early 1700’s, farmers found that chickens born in the spring brought better prices than ‘old’ ones that had gone through winter. When farmers tried to sell the old birds as 'new spring born’, buyers complained that they were 'no spring chicken’.
ANJRg TIL that of all the restaurants that have been featured on Guy Fieri's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives", '224 of the 1,498 (and counting)Triple D restaurants have closed, which comes out to just shy of 15%.'
xVBk1 TIL that my favorite childhood villain, Ramses II from Prince of Egypt, is voiced over by Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes)
xYbD TIL Scientists discovered in 2015 that Boa Constrictors kill their prey by cutting off their blood supply, not by suffocation like it was originally assumed.