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TIL a Greyhound became a Saint in 13th Century France

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WkpXd TIL that in 2006, Illinois declared that Pluto was given planetary status but only while it passed over the state skies.
9YNwr TIL New Zealand is the only nation in the modern world to have an officially appointed government Wizard. Ian Brackenbury Channel has an official mandate to protect the government of New Zealand, and receives a modest annual salary for his services.
0w1v5 TIL the first repository in the world designed to contain nuclear waste on an indefinite basis is being built in Onkalo, Finland, with a final depth of 520 meters and a cost of over 800 million euros.
W7r9A TIL that in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment includes a self-portrait where St. Bartholomew holds Michelangelo's flayed skin. Michelangelo resented being commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel, as he considered himself primarily to be a sculptor, not a painter, and included this as a protest.
PK9L TIL only three humans have ever died outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. All three from the same mission.