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TIL that The International Astronomical Union names all mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan after mountains in Tolkien’s work.

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6e1W TIL that Approximately 25-30% of drinkers are resistant to hangover symptoms
Qmwa TIL that long before creating Star Trek, 26-year-old Gene Roddenberry was a co-pilot aboard a Pan Am plane that crashed in the Syrian Desert. With several broken ribs, he helped save 22 people and eventually led them to safety.
d8ywB TIL Thomas Jefferson for many years "kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves” named Sally Hemings.
OGXLX TIL King Henry VIII of England had servants called “Grooms of Stool”, who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet. Gross.
1anA7 TIL Russia was forced to release ten pirates who had taken over an oil tanker, due to having insufficient legal grounds to detain them. They released them in an inflatable boat without any navigation equipment. Radio contact was lost within an hour. It’s believed that they all perished.