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TIL Pluto was discovered in 1930. It takes around 248 years to complete one orbit around the sun. Since its discovery it still has not even made one complete orbit.

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a8AbA TIL Doritos were invented at Disneyland. In the 1960s, the restaurant Casa de Fritos at Disney used up their surplus tortillas by frying and coating them with a seasoning powder. The appetizer was such a big hit that Frito-Lay, an early sponsor of Disneyland, released the snack nationwide.
786XP TIL that Winston Churchill smoked 8 to 10 cigars a day from the age of 21 until his death at 90. He picked up the habit, which he believed steadied his nerves, while in Cuba for a few months in 1895, and stayed loyal to two Cuban brands, Romeo y Julieta and La Aroma de Cuba, to the end of his life.
x6ydb TIL Sri Lankan playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera performed her debut play "Middle of Silence" at the age of 19 and her debut play was staged in London's West End. She also wrote screenplay for 2008 Italian-Sri Lankan film Machan which was based on the disappearance of Sri Lanka national handball team
ve1r TIL that in 2001, an LA artist impersonated a Caltrans worker, forged an invoice, used a hidden ladder, and installed his own freeway sign in the presence of another highway crew. Nobody noticed, he was never charged, and the sign remained for over eight years.
O50a TIL ancient Egyptians used tamed and trained cheetahs for hunting; this tradition was passed on and kept alive until the 20th century by e.g. Indian royalty