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TIL Pluto was discovered in 1930, and because of its extremely long orbital period (248 earth years), humans will not observe one whole orbit until 2178

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DQjg TIL that a man in India was wrongly declared dead by the government, and to disprove this he had to go as far as contesting against the incumbent Prime Minister in an election.
kO6Ee TIL that on February 20, 1939 there was a Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden and over 20,000 people attended. The official name for the event was the “Pro American Rally”.
kJpAE TIL that in the 1970s and 80s, a group of Deaf children in Nicaragua created their own complex sign language from scratch.
kJd8e TIL that in addition to being an award-winning comedic actress know for her various film and television roles, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the daughter of French billionaire businessman Gérard Louis-Dreyfus.
kJkvd TIL Elmer McCurdy (an outlaw) was killed in Oklahoma in 1911. His body was discovered in 1976 by a film crew member in an amusement park, where it was thought to be a wax mannequin.