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TIL Moons can have moons and they're called "moonmoons"

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LQvA9 TIL that the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, who set off the chain of events in the July Crisis and eventually the outbreak of WWI, and some of his accomplices, is buried at a mausoleum called "Heroes Chapel".
4k95w TIL 8.5 million people died because of the first world war
9wlgM TIL Copyleft is a thing
b9eBj TIL of the Wake Island Rail, a little-known casualty of WW2; it went extinct when Japanese soldiers were stranded on the island by a US blockade. With no fear of predators, a combo of overhunting by the starving Japanese & the bombing of the island by the US wiped out the entire species in 1 year
VB0mp TIL Emasculation is the removal of both the penis and the testicles. It differs from castration, which is the removal of the testicles only