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TIL Pluto is legally still a planet in Illinois

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njDW TIL there is a product that will turn you into a tree after death. Gerard Moline developed the Bios Urn which allows people to use their ashes to germinate a seed of their choice.
RnZ8 TIL a lonely, defomed dolphin was adopted by a family of sperm whales.
9w74p TIL that Christoper Robin, the kid whose teddy bear inspired the Winnie the Pooh stories, was credited with killing 28 Wehrmacht soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge.
BrdPL TIL that most places in the American South named Lincoln are named for the Revolutionary War general Benjamin Lincoln rather than Abraham Lincoln.
X0ep6 TIL that the White House has contained several vegetable gardens since the 2nd president, John Adams, and they have been maintained by multiple (although not all) presidents and their First Ladies as a tradition.