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TIL that an IAU regulation states that all mountains on Titan must be named after mountains from The Lord of the Rings.

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yanJ TIL of Karczówka - where a man died falling into a cesspool, who had someone attempt to rescue him, who also died, and so on and so forth until 5% of it’s population died doing this.
VMdLZ TIL: If you gently press the bottom right corner of your eyeball through the eyelid, you see a little dark spot in the top left of your vision. This is because we see the world upside down, but our brain translate it so it looks right side up to us.
PY95J TIL Fidel Castro hated cults of personality. In Cuba, there are no statues of him, no streets or buildings named after him, and no official portraits of him.
x6LV7 TIL Sigmund Freud wrote a book where he claimed Moses actually worshipped an Egyptian sun deity.
KORaw TIL The Office of Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon has an entire unit of people devoted to the study of UFO's and UFO encounters.