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TIL the dark region on the north pole of Pluto's moon, Charon, is named Mordor after the black volcanic plane from Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"

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v1Y07 TIL actor Rob Riggle was a Marine for 23 years, was a lieutenant colonel, and has received a combat award for his service in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Liberia.
kX7B TIL that often times before a person dies from hypothermia, they experience a burst of extreme heat and it causes them to undress themselves. This is known as paradoxical undressing.
84aL TIL Douglas Bader was a legless flying ace (RAF) in WW2 . His success was partly because of his having no legs; pilots pulling high “g-forces” in combat often “blacked out” as the flow of blood from the brain to other body parts, usually the legs. As he had no legs he could remain conscious longer.
X06YP TIL of the Darvaza gas crater, AKA the Gates of Hell, a crater in Turkmenistan that has been on fire since the ‘80s. Engineers wanted to prevent the emission of poisonous gases by igniting them, but reportedly underestimated how much there was.
KOenQ TIL "The U.S. economy has performed better when the President of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican,almost regardless of how one measures performance."