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TIL Pluto is, by law, still a planet in New Mexico

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W7JA9 TIL that virtually all of the ice in the biosphere is known as Ice I. At higher pressures though, there are 19 known different phases of ice.
d8mGE TIL the word "algorithm" has its roots in the name of the Persian mathematician of al-Khwarizmi. The word "algebra" is derived from the Latinization of "al-jabr", part of the title of his most famous book. He also oversaw the translation of major Greek and Indian mathematical and astronomical texts.
l7px5 TIL Ty Cobb debuted in center field for the Detroit Tigers, three weeks after his mother killed his father
j6Ekn TIL that a meteor strike in a very isolated area of Siberia in 1908 flattened 830 miles of forest. It is the largest meteor strike ever recorded, it was called the Tunguska Event.
OoZE4 TIL Three Honolulu firefighters were killed, and six wounded, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, making them the only fire department on American soil to be attacked by a foreign power.