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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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ORwa TIL of Death Valley Unified School District, which covers 6000sq miles but serves only 60 students, making both one of the largest and smallest districts in the USA. It is also the only district with a school inside a national park.
P17Je TIL of puppeteer Ronald Brown, from Christian children's television programme, Joy Junction. He would later be arrested for planning to kidnap and eat a child.
vPDb8 TIL in 1942 Disney made a cartoon about donating bacon grease to help win the war
9wlAQ TIL there's a medical condition that causes its sufferers to sweat blood.
d8lj8 TIL Gases produced from most foods are actually odorless. But certain foods result in the formation of sulfur-containing gases like hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, so when it builds up in the colon and eventually gets released, the result can carry a rotten egg-like odor.