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TIL that there is a dwarf planet in our solar system that is 8 billion miles away and takes 10,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

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V7r4 TIL That in India there is a precariously balanced boulder on the edge of a slope named “Krishna’s Butter Ball”.
jlQX TIL That the Soviet Diplomat Molotov was reportedly the only man to ever “shake hands” with Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Roosevelt and Churchill. He also outlived them all and died in 1986 at the age of 96.
9DWm TIL that killing someone to prevent the theft of property is legal in Texas. A jury used that standard to acquit a man who shot a prostitute who ran away with his money in 2013.
mxmjE TIL Brussels sprouts taste less bitter than they did 20 years ago, as a result of selective breeding
gMjJ8 TIL of the Treaty of Canandaigua between the USA and the Iroquois in 1794. Article 6, requiring the US to provide $4500 in goods every year, is honored to this day, but Article 2, protecting the land of the Oneida, was mostly ignored and their land fell from 6,000,000 acres to just 32 acres in 1920.