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TIL at least 3 Beatles fans committed suicide after Lennon was murdered

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QNakk TIL Pluto is no longer a planet not because of its size but because it has "not cleared its neighboring region of other objects.”
X0V0Q TIL That, in 1991, the Bryan Adams song "Everything I Do" (which had reached #1 worldwide) was declared to be not sufficiently Canadian by the regulatory body CRTC denying it more frequent airplay in Canada. This despite Adams being made a member of the Order of Canada in 1990.
781n7 TIL that there is a Goldfish breed so rare that is considered a cryptid. The Meteor Goldfish.
yVny8 TIL that in 1941, German engineer Konrad Zuse unveiled the Z3, the world's first fully functional programmable computer.
6J7Z TIL that before the Soviet takeover, Afghan women comprised 50% of government workers, 70% of schoolteachers, and 40% of doctors in Kabul. Now the literacy rate for women is 12.6%. Only 6% of women get a high school education.