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TIL about Westward Ho! in England and Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec, the only towns in the world with exclamation marks in their names.

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4XQGJ TIL that when her son Jeremy began showing symptoms of schizophrenia, Elli Perkins refused to consult a psychiatrist due to her Scientologist beliefs and tried to cure him with alternative medicine instead. This resulted in Jeremy murdering her because he believed she was trying to poison him.
woxJW TIL the moon's orbit around the sun is almost a perfect circle instead of a spiral. In order for it to become a spiral, it would have to orbit around earth 30x faster.
0dRp1 TIL in 1999, financial analyst Harry Markopolos had informed the SEC that he believed it was legally and mathematically impossible to achieve the gains Bernie Madoff claimed. It took four minutes to conclude that his numbers did not add up, and another minute to suspect they were fraudulent.
dDRX7 TIL having nostalgia for a time you've never known is called Anemoia.
m1dQy TIL NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in 2015, carries onboard a portion of the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto. Also onboard (among other things) are a nylon American Flag, a 1991 postage stamp that reads "Pluto: Not Yet Explored", and FL and MD state quarters.