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TIL That despite the commonly held belief that the Earth's Moon's name is "Luna", this is in fact not true, the official name for Earth's Moon is just "Moon"

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vVeK TIL “When frogs eat something bad for them, they can throw up their entire stomach. The stomach actually protrudes through their mouth and they wipe it with their right front leg.”
m1p7p TIL that the line “ hey soul sister, ain’t that mr. mister” from Hey Soul Sister was in fact not train being a bad lyricist and repeating a word twice but the name of an actual band.
wonAM TIL New York mobster, Joe Gallo was a diagnosed schizophrenic, watercolor painter, and avid reader of classic literature, who paraded his pet lion around the city. He kidnapped his own bosses, sparked two gang wars, and was killed on his birthday, in 1972. And Bob Dylan wrote a song about him.
j69JN TIL that nine year old John Clem enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War, shot a Confederate Colonel and was promoted to Sergeant by they age of 12, and retired at the rank of Major General in 1915.
M1QA TIL That Amon Goeth was charged by the Nazis for not providing enough food to the prisoners in his camp, and for violating rules regarding the treatment of prisoners