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TIL the American animated television show RoboTech is the result of heavily editing three Japanese television series that were previously unrelated to one another.

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oRmp7 TIL that the Counting Crows song "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" was written about the woman who plays Nicolas Cage's wife in "Con Air".
XELJX TIL Pluto didn't get to complete a single orbit around the sun until it was demoted to no longer being a planet. It was discovered on February 18, 1930 and takes 248.09 Earth years to go one time around the sun.
0dGD1 TIL that most of the moons of Uranus are named after Shakespeare characters.
d8gKK TIL about the encephalization quotient (EQ), the ratio of a species’ actual brain mass to its predicted brain mass used as a marker for intelligence. Rats have a EQ of 0.4, Chimps 2.5, Dolphins 5.3, and humans 7.0 respectively.
dGN8 TIL that in 1979, an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a dying island near his home. Since then, Jadav’s island has blossomed into Molai Forest, an oasis bigger than Central Park with thousands of plants and animals