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TIL the guy who discovered Pluto’s moon Charon made up the name to resemble his wife’s name, Charlene. He later discovered that in Greek mythology, Charon was the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx to Hades, AKA Pluto.

WGA4 TIL of John Titor, who claimed to be from the year 2036 and was looking for an IBM 5100 for its ability to debug and emulate code between various languages. IBM engineer Bob Dubke confirmed that, at the time, this feature was unknown to the public. Titor disappeared soon later.
PYQZ TIL that there are three underwater rock formations in the Bahamas that are made of roughly rectangular limestone blocks and look like straight roads.
dvpd TIL in 1994, American Michael Fay was sentenced to caning in Singapore for theft and vandalism. Caning is a routine sentence in Singapore, but its unfamiliarity to Americans created a backlash. The number of strokes in Fay’s sentence was reduced from 6 to 4 after U.S. officials requested leniency
mnBO TIL that Catalan activist Enric Duran took out 68 loans from a total of 39 banks between 2006-2008, with no collateral, and no intention of repaying, and used the money to finance activist movements, as an act of ‘financial civil disobedience’
EyEV TIL, a Thai janitor stole Saudi Royal jewels, when the jewels were then returned it was discovered that half of them were fake, a Saudi business man with close ties to the royal family then traveled to Thailand to investigate and was abducted and killed, along with 3 Saudi officials 3 months later.