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TIL There is a surface feature on Pluto named after Cthulhu

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e0j46 TIL that many scholars believe that nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosie" is written about the symptoms of Black Death, the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history.
MNx8 TIL Tim Allen went to prison in ‘78 for smuggling over a pound of cocaine through the airport
JYPOl TIL scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, with food used to represent urban areas, after a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network. Which was designed to be as efficient as possible, the slime mold did the same, but without a brain.
5V7oD TIL - Pope Leo XIII was the first Pope whose voice was recorded on audio. He also drank Vin Mariani, wine laced with cocaine
awJjN TIL that the Cherokee and Choctaw are supposed to get a representative in Congress as per two treaties the government made with them.