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TIL Pluto is so far from Earth that it takes light 5.5 hours to travel from our planet to the other. The average distance between Earth and Pluto is same as the average distance of Pluto from the Sun, so light takes the same amount of time to travel between either.

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nAZd TIL in 1873 a classic adventure novel “Around the World in 80 Days” was published in France. Six years later an American woman journalist by the pen name of Nellie Bly completed the trip with the described itinerary in 72 days with nothing more than a handbag and travel money tied around her neck.
KOpla TIL President Kennedy's daughter Caroline was given a puppy by the Soviets in 1961. The puppy's mother, Strelka, had earlier been launched into space during Sputnik. JFK's Thank You letter to the Soviets opened a channel of communication that helped divert the Cuban Missile Crisis 16 months later.
R7478 TIL that a meteorite that fell contained many organic compounds, one of which is a novel amino acid similar to mammal neurotransmitters and can treat chronic pain
emr4 TIL Tobacco is fertilized with radioactive apatite, the radiation received from smoking a pack a day per year compares to receiving 2,000 modern chest x-rays a year.
4ydo TIL:Once George Dantzig was late for the class, professor had written two examples of famously unsolved statistics problems on the blackboard. Dantzig assumed that the two problems were a homework assignment and wrote them down. A few days later he handed in completed solutions for the two problems.