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TIL that on Saturn’s moon Titan, mountain ranges are named after mountains & characters from JRR Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.

Read more planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov

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d887K TIL that in 2013 Kanye West's "Yeezus" was voted both "Most Overrated Album" and "Most Underrated Album" by Pitchfork readers.
OGDkX TIL about Mark Zborowski, an NKVD agent who infiltrated Trotsky's organization in Paris, murdered Trotsky's son, moved to the US where he continued to infiltrate Trotsky's organization. He joined Harvard as a researcher, was later tried and convicted as a spy, and then resumed his academic career.
Yj1A TIL There are de-classified FBI documents suggesting Hitler didn’t kill himself but rather escaped to Argentina with his wife Eva Braun.
nrLb TIL that Nintendo paid Mike Tyson just $50,000 to use his likeness for three years in “Punch Out,” because at the time he was not yet the WBC heavyweight champion.
Oxla TIL that most bamboo species flower only once every several decades, but when they do, all of the bamboo from the same group flower at the same time, regardless of where they are planted.