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TIL the Lakers name comes from their originally city, Minneapolis, Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes.

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Jv6k TIL that the Vatican says that followers of Pope Francis on twitter will have less time in Purgatory.
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o7MY TIL, in 1962 under Centralia PA,one of the largest mines in the US caught fire. The fire formed sinkholes and vented lethal amounts of carbon monoxide forcing the evacuation of residents.Today the town remains abandoned while the fire continues to burn and is expected to do so for another 250 years!
b1NN 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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