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TIL that from the time Pluto was discovered until the time it was demoted from planethood, it still hadn't made one complete revolution around the sun.

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OwER TIL Eisenhower, despite his military background, pursued a non-autocratic decision making method as President, which relied on listening to diverse views and then relentlessly pursuing common ground between his advisers.
1anvD TIL that just outside Albuquerque you can drive East on Route 66 and hit a rumble strip that plays "America The Beautiful" if you drive the speed limit, turning the wheels of your car into a phonograph
omL TIL that there is a theory that our universe is nothing more than a holographic representation of the “Real” universe. That this “hologram” exists in the event horizon of a black hole.
9wWWm TIL that boxer Vitali Klitschko was never knocked down in the ring, and was actually winning on points against Lennox Lewis, when a cut above Klitschko’s eye was bad enough for Lewis to be deemed the winner.
Lk8rV TIL about the Bengal famine of 1942-43, in which the British allowed at least 1.5 million Bengalis to die of starvation. Only when Ian Stephens broke with British censorship and published pictures starving people and bodies did the British start to provide relief.