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TIL Since Discovered, Pluto has not completed its orbit around the sun. (It takes 248 years to complete its orbit)

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yVeGJ TIL that anxiety and/or stress can cause fevers.
mrEo TIL that pre-Incan people are still living on man-made floating islands of grass, as they have for hundreds of years, on lake Titicaca
XGwD TIL that cities in Greece struggle to build subway systems because they keep digging up ancient ruins.
1aYnD TIL that when the 1982 Tylenol murders occured, Johnson & Johnson recalled 31 million bottles of Tylenol capsules despite it being their bestselling product and accounted for 17% of J&J's profits. However, the move was a huge PR success and is now studied as an exemplary case of crisis management.
e0dYb TIL about Ellsworth & Emery Kolb, brothers from the early 1900's who "dangled from ropes, clung to sheer cliff walls by their fingertips, climbed inaccessible summits", and defied death to photograph the Grand Canyon