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

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KYN0J TIL that Ed McCabe—the youngest copywriter inducted into the One Club Creative Hall of Fame—was responsible for some the world’s most successful advertising campaigns that ran between the late 60s-80s. He had no formal training in advertising, and he never graduated high school.
KOjBE TIL one may eat breakfast, lunch or dinner in the sky in Dubai while suspended 50 meters in the air.
16GJd TIL in 1967 three astronauts - Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee - died in a cabin fire in the first test of the Apollo command and service module. Because there was no rocket fuel, the test was not considered hazardous, and emergency preparedness for it was poor.
6oOY TIL that India has proposed to link 67 rivers to prevent floods and droughts. By doing so, an area equivalent to that of Germany will be irrigated.
o0WW TIL that to determine the quality of caviar, some fisherman will suck eggs out of a live fish with a straw to test how “ripe” they are.