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TIL that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson received large amounts of hate mail from children after declassifying Pluto as a planet.

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Ooov1 TIL lebanese-american voice actor Casey Kasem, best know as Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, left the Transformers cartoon after they introduced a somewhat offensive character named 'Abdul Fakkadi' who was ruler of a country called 'Carbombia'.
R5bgj TIL Lili’uokalani was the first and only reigning queen in Hawaii for just under 2 years before overthrown by the U.S.
VMNAG TIL Grand Guignol was a theatre founded in 1897 in Paris, which specialised in gory horror acts. After WW2, audiences waned and it got closed in 1962. This is because by that time, many already heard or witnessed the real horrors of war. Thus, they didn’t find interest in such theatre anymore
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VBLvm TIL the physical virginity of Jesus' mother was so important in the Middle Ages, paintings depicted Mary getting pregnant through her ear with a beam of light from the Holy Ghost.