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TIL that Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto, had some of his ashes placed aboard the New Horizons space probe, the spacecraft that first explored the dwarf planet

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RYP4 TIL a googolplex, a number which represents 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 100, is so big that there wouldn’t be enough space in the known universe to write it out even each digit was the size of a proton.
a8Eby TIL: Drowning is by far the most common cause of death for Hawaiian tourists, with the majority of those deaths happening while snorkeling.
X6gj TIL Allie Brosh’s (of Hyperbole and a Half) comic on depression is considered “one of the best contemporary portraits of the condition” by psychologists.
b9bNZ TIL that the current primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, archbishop Sawa of Warsaw, worked as an informant for the Polish secret police, reporting fellow churchmen, and used his association with them to climb the church's ranks.
gMrJb TIL in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 there were too many bodies to bury so the corpses were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. Shortly thereafter the bodies began to wash back onshore and survivors constructed funeral pyres to burn the corpses. The fires burned day and night for weeks.