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TIL That Pluto is legally a planet in Illinois

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orWW TIL President Lyndon Johnson was infamous for having meetings while on the toilet
neOP9 TIL that, in 2014, scientists found a giant 30,000 year old virus in Siberian permafrost. The virus, Pithovirus sibericum, was still infectious and began killing amoebas. This raised concerns that melting or drilling arctic ice could unearth previously undiscovered pathogenic viruses.
x6vkk TIL: The longest will ever drafted was 95,940 words (1066 pages) and the shortest will drafted was 1 word, which was, "Heir's"