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TIL Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto, has finally visited it, as his ashes are aboard the New Horizons spacecraft that completed a Pluto flyby in 2015.

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bMeQ TIL that Frank Welker, the voice behind Scooby-Doo, Fred, Megatron, and more, has over 1,000 credits in voice acting, and, if the revenue from his credits was totaled, would be the highest-grossing actor of all time.
1aoQW TIL the most dangerous virus is the Marburg virus. It causes convulsions and bleeding of mucous membranes, skin and organs. It has a fatality rate of 90 percent
gMDmb TIL that pigs have rings in the side of their nostrils to keep them from rooting
X0poj TIL: Peter Pan's Captain Hook canonically went to Famous English Public School, Eton.
YpP4d TIL before the Mayflower, Squanto was kidnapped, sold into slavery in Spain, and escaped back to North America, only to find his entire tribe wiped out from disease. The site he later helped the Pilgrams settle at was the summer village of his tribe, Plymoth Rock.