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6ERrW TIL Scientists managed to capture an image of a newborn planet that was still forming in the disk of gas and dust around its star.
Zp8ov TIL that prairie dogs have a complex language where they can form sentences
vgkL TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.
EMxp TIL: A man got a job as the chief of police with falsified credentials which included a picture of a fake Los Angeles Police Department badge bearing the serial number 714, rightfully belonging to the fictional Sgt. Joe Friday of “Dragnet.”
lokVr TIL that Jerri Blank's character in Strangers with Candy was based off of Florrie Fisher, a former addict and prostitute turned motivational speaker who was a cult icon for her outlandish stories shared with high school students in the 1960s and 70s.