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TIL Pluto is legally a planet whenever it passes over New Mexico

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0dZmA TIL If you you experience auditory hallucinations (specifically sounds as opposed to voices) as you fall asleep or as you are waking up they are considered normal and up to 70% of people experience this occasionally. Hearing them in the middle of the day is not.
loD6A TIL that because the UK Royal Navy's Astute class nuclear powered submarines can purify their own air and water and run on nuclear fuel, that the endurance is only limited to 90 days due to breakfast storage capacity for 18,000 sausages and 4200 Weetabix
l78Qa TIL when it was deemed impossible to shoot the tanker fight in The Spy Who Loved Me on an actual supertanker and no other soundstage would fit the set, Albert R Broccoli commissioned the 007 Stage, the biggest in the world at the time.
ANr1l TIL that, due to its short orbit around the sun (just 88 days), Mercury is, on average, the closest planet not only to Earth but to all the other planets in our Solar System as well.
VMro0 TIL That termite queens are the longest living insect on the planet. Living on average up to 15 years with some scientists suggesting they can live up to 50-100 years old.