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TIL the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh are currently en route to Pluto - the planet he discovered

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5Vwop TIL that birds can get divorced. Over 90% of avian species form socially monogamous pair bonds, but they may end the bonds by 're-mating' with a different partner after so-called 'divorce'. Divorce rate increases with male promiscuity and migration distance
wLlyE TIL There was once a camel in North America with a neck like a giraffe.
NDgM TIL that Deadpool (2016) is the highest grossing R-rated film of all time, the highest grossing X-Men film, and the highest grossing 20th Century Fox film not directed by James Cameron or George Lucas.
BdWx TIL Derek Kieper, an anti-seat belt law advocate, was killed in a car wreck because he wasn’t wearing his seat belt.
jy4j TIL that 70 percent of the world have never met a Jewish person.