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TIL Pluto takes 248 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun. From the time it was discovered (1930) to the time it was stripped of its 'Planet' status, the dwarf planet hadn't even made a full trip around the Sun.

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aPQb TIL the Italian Supreme Court ruled it’s OK to watch porn during your lunch break, after FIAT fired a guy for watching porn at lunch. He claimed it was only a glimpse, and there was no evidence that this was a habit that’s affecting his work, so the court ruled he had done nothing wrong
16OPD TIL Denver International Airport (Colorado, USA) occupies 52.4 square miles (136 sq km), making DIA larger in land area (excluding water) than the US cities of Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California.
JYrnV TIL Michael Jackson liked the song “Behind the Mask” by Japanese electronic group, the Yellow Magic Orchestra, so much that he wanted to include it in Thriller. He added lyrics, melodies to make it a song about a girlfriend would often hide her emotions behind a "mask"
vPPbj TIL the design of a skyscraper in London was melting cars and setting buildings on fire. It’s curvilinear shape was causing the problem: The south-facing exterior wall was covered in reflective glass, and because it's concave, it focuses the sun's rays onto a small area.
69Zl TIL that there are actual anti-drugs out there. Anti-weed, anti-LSD, and anti-heroin drugs have been developed in order to give the user the opposite effect of their more illegal counterparts.