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TIL Hunter S Thompson was a uncredited co-creator of Nash Bridges and collected royalties from the show

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nekeP TIL that in the 85 years since Pluto’s discovery, it has yet to complete a single orbit of the Sun. A single Plutonian year is 247.68 Earth years.
WvNo TIL Google makes use of a Kevlar-like layer to protect its underwater internet cables from shark bites.
aw0B0 TIL of Corporatocracy: an economic and political system controlled by corporations or corporate interests.
8v1X TIL this temple, recently discovered in Turkey, suggests Mesopotamians were not the first civilization, by about 3000 years.
MQgB TIL Russian Salyut Spacecraft carried working machine guns