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TIL ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are on its way there

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vPj18 TIL that the term "Plasma" was used in biology before the state of matter was discovered
lbBV TIL Elon Musk chose to attend Queen’s University instead of University of Waterloo (Canada’s leading engineering university) because “there were girls [in Queen’s]”
e08Z5 TIL Willie Nelson wrote and sold the hit song ‘Crazy’ for $50 while struggling to make ends meet. Patsy Cline’s version of the song became a No. 2 country hit in 1962.
d8PMB Today I Learned that Ton 618 is the largest super massive black hole with a scary large mass of 44 billion suns. It is also one of the brightest objects in the universe.
MeOvm TIL of Harlon Block, a marine who raised the flag on Iwo Jima but then died soon after. He was misidentified in the famous picture for 2 years but his mother knew it was him. Looking at the photo she exclaimed “I’ve changed so many diapers on that boy’s butt, I know it’s my boy"