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TIL There is another planet that orbits the sun on the outer-reaches of our solar system, sedna

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vOlj TIL: Andrew Jackson’s parrot was ejected from his funeral for swearing
j6rEj TIL that there is enough gold in the oceans to give each person on Earth about 9 pounds of the metal.
lN91 TIL that, in the early 1960s, the CIA coined the term ‘Plausible Deniability’ to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge.
6E0RQ TIL TV executive Fred Silverman got the inspiration for Scooby-Doo's name from Frank Sinatra's hit song "Strangers In The Night." The syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo" can be heard at the end of the song. Silverman used Sinatra's improvisation to help name the cartoon canine.
4epN TIL James Cameron altered the stars in the night sky of the raft scene in Titanic 3D after Neil DeGrasse Tyson sent him a “snarky email” pointing out that the star field would have been different in 1912.