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TIL the IAU definition of planet that excludes Pluto from being considered one also excludes Mercury.

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Zp9vo TIL Australia has the largest population of feral camels in the world; a 2009 cull killed 160,000 camels, about 25% of the original population
XDKP TIL Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in three days. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. He re-wrote it, once again in three days.
ANXM4 TIL that the senior executive vice president of Tencent, David Wallerstein, has a prog metal band in which he plays guitar and sings, and goes by the pseudonym DarWin.
1a9p7 TIL : In Victorian UK drunks would literally hang over a rope to sleep for 2-cents/pence
gMPp4 TIL a Chinese general once scared away an army of 10,000, with a flute. The well known general sat on the wall of his undermanned city playing the flute, with the gates flung open. The opposition assumed it to be a trap and retreated.