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TIL Nasa plans to probe Uranus in about 15 years

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xna7 TIL the United States’ national anthem began its life as a drinking song in an English gentlemen’s club
rM4W TIL of the French essayist and grammarian Dominique Bouhours, whose dying words were “I am about to - or I am going to - die: either expression is correct.”
b9KP0 TIL New Zealand was home to some of the largest birds on Earth around 600 years ago, the Moas. These ostrich-like birds were as tall as 3m but went extinct due to overhunting by the first Polynesian settlers.
Br0NL TIL children's poet Shel Silverstein wrote many outlaw country songs, such as A Boy Named Sue.
0PQM TIL Flying squirrels are actually native to most the United States, people just don’t see them because they’re nocturnal… and flying