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TIL that the New Horizons space probe that passed Pluto in 2015 had an ounce of Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes, the man that discovered Pluto

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vPB18 TIL of the view that the response to the "Year 2000 problem" was indeed an overreaction, as evidenced by countries such as South Korea and Russia who invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation having the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money
P1YGJ TIL Amber Heard’s London Fields film is the second worst performing US box office opening for a wide release film of all time.
kOXrd TIL that it is not an urban legend that snakes could hide in toilets and attack the genitals of humans. It has happened multiple times in real life.
1EvP TIL Ontario employs a police interrogator so effective, the running joke is “if you’re under questioning and Jim Smyth walks in, don’t make any appointments for the next 25 years”. His trick: offering coffee and a sympathetic ear.
O7le TIL that Despot, Tyrant, Dictator, and Autocrat were originally respectable titles and did not have the negative connotations we do today