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TIL that all the mountains on Titan are named after mountains and peaks from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

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DlZr TIL that there are fake Harry Potter books written in China using material from other authors, with titles such as “Harry Potter and the Filler of Big” and “Harry Potter and the Chinese Overseas Students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry”
j6PpN TIL: An elephant jumped off a suspension railway in 1950 and survived the 10m drop into a shallow stream
Jd9V TIL in the Duelfer Report by the 1,400 member force by the CIA and Pentagon concluded in 2004 that Saddam Hussein had stopped all nuclear and chemical activities, as well as destroyed all stockpiles, in 1991
bAdj TIL in 2009 CD Singles sales ‘officially’ died when Florence and the Machine charted at number 16 in the UK after selling a whopping 64 physical copies of their single
6XvJ TIL Ash’s mom (from pokemon) used to date Giovanni, and was a member of team rocket.