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TIL that the guy who got Pluto not to be a planet anymore wrote a book called “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”. He is also behind the discovery of the new Ninth planet.

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nXJ9 TIL Indian Removal in America was a larger genocide than the Holocaust
pYdG4 TIL Australia has a public collection programme for funnel-web spiders. The public are asked to catch the deadliest spider in the world (capable of killing a child in 15 minutes, and has fangs that can pierce toenails) and take them to designated points. They are milked for the anti-venom programme.
16BQO TIL about Snuffy's Parents Get A Divorce, an unaired episode of Sesame Street that was produced in '92. After tests showed that young viewers were confused by the episode and did not understand important concepts about divorce, the producers decided not to air it, despite the investment they'd made.
7AX TIL in 1983 an Israeli pilot sucessfully landed an F-15 with only one wing. In fact he didn’t realize the extent of the damage until after landing, and stated he would have ejected had he known.
Ja4k TIL that a one-eyed man was executed for bestiality in 1642 in Connecticut after a local sow gave birth to a one-eyed piglet