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TIL that the planet Uranus was discovered before the continent of Antarctica

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617m TIL a Hungarian man murdered 24 women and attempted to pickle their bodies in beer before enlisting to fight in World War 1. When his crimes were discovered, he evaded capture and was never heard from again.
4kvd5 TIL that your lungs aren't actually the same size; the right lung is slightly larger than the left and even has one additional lobe unlike the left lung.
v1YL7 TIL "Huh" is a "Universal Word" And Means the Same Thing in Every Language Around The World
woxJW TIL the moon's orbit around the sun is almost a perfect circle instead of a spiral. In order for it to become a spiral, it would have to orbit around earth 30x faster.
JkQ8 TIL that Mussolini had his first wife and son forced into psychiatric institutions when they refused to distance themselves from him. Ida Dalser’s (his ex-wife) death was registered as a “brain hemorrhage” and Benito Albino Mussolini’s (his first son) was caused by repeated coma inducing-injections.