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TIL Pluto is no longer a planet not because of its size but because it has "not cleared its neighboring region of other objects.”

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egK5 TIL that Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” is cyclical, with the phrase “Isn’t this where…“ ”…we came in?” split in half between the first and last song. When the two songs are spliced together, the complete phrase “Isn’t this where we came in?” forms, proposing that Pink’s story repeats itself
xRr1 TIL that the 85-year-old daughter of an illiterate coal miner has been an international jewel thief for more than 6 decades
781l7 TIL about john rogan, The second tallest man ever, who only weighed 200 pounds at eight foot nine, having a bmi of 12.8, who also couldn't walk and used a goat wagon as a wheel chair
VM0O4 TIL Many polls and surveys are not interested in your response. They are not polls at all. Instead they are marketing pushes disguised as polls that steer your thinking through manipulative questioning. Its called "push polling".
mxaZx TIL that Rhodes Scholarships and Rhodesia are named after the same guy,