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TIL The Moon Is Bigger Than Pluto

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8ekRb TIL gummy worms were invented in 1981 by Trolli, the German candy company.
LQAyQ TIL that 'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) by Charles Dickens is the most sold non-holy individual book of all time
e0W65 TIL Georgia Tann kidnapped and sold 5,000 babies during 1924-1950. One of those kidnapped children was professional wrestling legend, The ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair.
PYAjg TIL that archaeologists use the term Before Present, whereby the Present is the 1st of Jan 1950, because after that point in time, we had done so much nuclear testing, that nothing can be reliably carbon-dated anymore.
kJVv1 TIL of Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa, who went from a 19 year old migrant farm worker to the head of neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic.