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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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yQyQl TIL that the Queen is the only person in Britain who can drive without a licence, because they are issued in the Queen’s name
v1Noj TIL The Steve Miller Band hit "Jet Airliner" was not a Steve Miller Band original. The song was first recorded by Paul Pena in 1973. Due to record label disputes, Pena's version of this song was not available to the public until the year 2000
WkWl8 TIL Despite being land locked countries, a Czech-Austrian inventor was the first to use a screw type propeller to power a ship. His ship, Civetta of 48 gross register tons, reached a speed of about 6 knots (11 km/h). This was the first ship successfully driven by an Archimedes screw-type propeller.
5YkmQ TIL Telfar Clemens, the owner of the Telfar clothing brand, redesigned the uniforms for the White Castle fast food chain and dedicated the earnings to bailing out youths from Ryker's Island prison.
woMeP TIL that “fire rainbows” are real. They’re called circumhorizontal arcs and happen when sunlight passes through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds—creating vibrant, horizontal bands of color in the sky. I had no idea these existed until today.