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TIL The Moon Is Bigger Than Pluto

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LEG0 TIL that Croatia voluntarily joined Nazi Germany in WW2 and perpetuated a now largely-forgotten Holocaust of Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia. Their methods of genocide were so brutal that even the Nazis had to tell the Croatians to stop.
Mej48 TIL In the '80s, the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 nationally because Reagan passed a bill in 1984 that required states to raise their drinking age to 21. They don't have to make it 21 per se, but if they chose to opt-out, they would simply be ineligible for federal highway funding.
PPWG TIL a hybrid of cattle and bison is called a Beefalo
LkxZr TIL A mysterious 10-12kg (22-26lbs) icy ball fell into an Indian village. Some villagers thought it was an extra-terrestrial object. There were reports of villagers taking pieces home to put in their refrigerators. They found it was more likely to be frozen human faeces leaked from a plane overhead.
E9lX TIL that the corpse of the original singer from Alice in Chains is believed to have sat in front of a flickering tv set for 2 weeks before it was found.