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TIL the FBI Mined Grocery Store Records for Falafel Purchases to Find Iranian Terrorists

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b1NN TIL that the guy who got Pluto not to be a planet anymore wrote a book called “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”. He is also behind the discovery of the new Ninth planet.
VMpDD TIL Trees emerged 350 million years ago. It took another 60 million years for wood-eating bacteria to evolve. Trees between this period eventually turned into the most of the coal we use today.
9YeGm TIL National Masturbation Day, also known as International Masturbation Day, is an annual event to protect and celebrate the right to masturbate. The first National Masturbation Day was celebrated on May 7, 1995 in US.
YpLXB TIL that Abraham Lincoln is believed to have both written and delivered the Gettysburg Address while suffering from smallpox.
WkrJB TIL the torch of the statue of liberty was closed on July 30, 1916, due to the Black Tom Explosion in the New York Harbor. It was a sabotage mission by the Germans during WWI.