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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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vP6bB TIL that Fidel Castro’s personal love for dairy products and ice cream was so great that he began a state funded project to grow Cuba’s dairy industry by bio engineering a cow that was perfect for producing milk and could thrive in Cuba’s warm climate.
DQOVj TIL: There was a scam in 2002 where people were invited to a year long reality TV show to win £100000. The participants were told to quit their jobs, leave their homes, and make 1 million within a year. Most realize they were making their own prize money quickly and left. However, some continued.
kJrx1 TIL after the Tenerife disaster, KLM looked for their most senior pilot to lead the investigation, only to learn that he was the pilot responsible for the crash
b66Wp TIL that a man had cancer, but the bizarre tumors didn't have human cells. It turns out he had tapeworms, and his tapeworm developed cancer that spread to him.
1g17 TIL that the little boy from the Shining teaches Anatomy at a community college in Kentucky and he tells his students at the beginning of each semester that they will fail class if they ask him anything about The Shining.