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TIL That Pluto is legally a planet in Illinois

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9YRKG TIL UK's highest-paid entertainer in WW2, George Formby, went to Normandy after the landings, & gave 9 shows to frontline troops who’d held out for 56 days without relief, his audience in foxholes. He also crawled through trenches to tell jokes when the enemy was too close for a show.

7nJO TIL that after the entire national Soviet hockey team was killed in an airplane crash in 1950, Stalin’s son Vasily, the manager of the team, covered up the disaster and replaced everyone on the team to avoid his father’s wrath. Stalin never noticed.

84pX TIL that people on the south Pacific Pitcairn Islands, descended from British mutineers and accompanying Tahitians, speak an English creole that is heavily influenced by naval lingo. “To fall over” is “to capsize” while for “everyone” they say “all hands” (from “all hands on deck”).

KO4bB TIL that Luckenbach, Texas, which was made famous in a Waylon Jennings song, has a population of 3.

45Yo TIL of a prisoner, who after getting his sentence reduced from electrocution by the chair, shocked and killed himself with a TV while on his toilet.