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TIL Pan, the second moon of Saturn, is irregularly shaped because it has absorbed some of Saturn's ring material

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wen6 TIL there is country that ranks lower than North Korea in the Press Freedom Index, which measures how much freedom journalists have. Eritrea surpassed North Korea as the bottom spot in 2007 and has held it since.
PYbYO TIL that the US-Canadian Border was known by the Plains Indians as "The Medicine Line" for it's seemingly magical ability to keep US troops from crossing it.
LkeG9 TIL of Evelyn McHale. The Most Beautiful Suicide (link in comment)
GAMPg TIL that the US and Ireland never recognized the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states and allowed the pre-ww2 diplomats to continue to operate
p8nwA TIL you are likely descended from royalty, but that doesn’t make you special. Everyone of European descent alive today can claim ancestry from medieval kings and queens based on statistical analysis of their ancestry