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TIL mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan are named after mountains in Middle-Earth

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VpN8 TIL that over 50 WWE wrestlers that competed in 1990s are now dead
8eYoa TIL world-renowned herpetologist Karl Schmidt was fatally bitten by a boomslang (an arboreal African elapid). To get some data out of the situation, he described every symptom in detail almost until the point of death.
oBM9L TIL while a grad student, botanist Arthur Galston discovered the use of an acid to encourage the flowering of soybeans, noting that high levels had a defoliant effect. The military later developed this acid into agent orange. Galston became a bioethicist, and his objections led Nixon to ban it.
gnpX TIL that Eunuchs (castrated men) live around 13.5 years longer than normal men due to the lack of testosterone.
WkAR9 TIL there are planets considered more habitable than Earth, based on potential for biodiversity. Scientists have identified 24 such planets so far.