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TIL there is a land dwelling crayfish native to Wisconsin
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TIL the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, first built in 1952 and still in use today, is commonly referred to as BUFF or Big Ugly Fat Fucker/Fella
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TIL that when determining the atomic mass of each chemical elements, the English chemist William Prout deduced that the building block of the atom is primarily the atom of Hydrogen. Though Prout’s hypothesis was not entirely accurate, because atom's building block is the proton.
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TIL For a short time, Uranus used to be named ‘George’.
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TIL Mount Everest was named by Andrew Waugh, George Everest sucessor. George Everest protested that the natives couldn't pronounce it and that it couldn't be written in Hindi, but the Royal Geographical Society named it Everest anyway despite his objections
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TIL That author Jane Austen's brother Francis fought in and commanded over numerous naval battles, was knighted, and eventually promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.