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TIL Pluto is no longer a planet because just 424 experts out of 10k+ decided it wasn’t

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W1dY TIL Star Trek’s Scotty, James Doohan, was a CDN soldier who landed on Juno Beach, killed two snipers and cleared a minefield before even getting off the beachhead.
9j0r TIL that Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie in 1971’s Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, never acted in another movie again, and later on became a veterinarian
R5al TIL Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci once played in the same band.
P9le TIL in 1978 pilot Frederick Valentich and his plane disappeared after being chased by a UFO. His last words were “the strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again. It is hovering and it’s not an aircraft.”
Z8pxo TIL Don Henley called paramedics to his home on November 21, 1980, where a 16-year-old girl was found naked and claiming she had overdosed on quaaludes and cocaine. Henley got away with only a contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge and a $2,500 fine.