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TIL: The ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered the planet Pluto, were sent to outer space on the New Horizons spacecraft making his the first human remains to leave our solar system.

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KOw64 TIL that Charles Joughin, Chief Baker on Titanic, helped passengers board life boats (forcibly boarding those who thought it safer to stay on the ship), drank a 1/2 bottle of liqueur, then threw chairs overboard for use as flotation devices, rode the side of the ship down while it sunk, and survived
R7Z7j TIL Culhuacan king allowed a small migrant Aztec tribe, the Mexica, to settle on his lands. 24 years later they sought marriage with the Culhuacan princess. Rather than marry her, the Mexica sacrificed her, then invited her father to a banquet where a priest wore her flayed skin as a garment.
J11y4 TIL The Outback Way is a 2,700 km "shortcut" directly through the Australian Outback. Without it, the trip from Winton to Laverton would be over 4,000 kms.
x6KE7 TIL in WW2, when Germans captured a British bomber tail gunner who claimed that he had jumped out of his plane at 5500m without a parachute, they investigated and confirmed his claim and gave him a certificate to confirm his story.
yVLPv TIL Babe Ruth became a shirtmaker as a teenager while attending a reformatory/orphanage. Even during his baseball career, he adjusted his own shirt collars, rather than have a tailor do it