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TIL Pluto is legally still a planet in Illinois

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QJPve TIL That diamonds are the most common gemstone in the world and that most of them are mined by a corporation known to have used murder and kidnapping in order to corner the market.
wkEo TIL Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson) is a master woodworker who made a marijuana stash box and “Lord of the Rings styled pipe” to smoke out of.
Y7D87 TIL: On July 1, 1942 the American submarine Sturgeon sank the Montevideo Maru that was transporting 1080 prisoners and civilians who were captured after the fall of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.
kB07 TIL The blue whale is not only the largest animal on Earth, but is also the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth at any point.
MdkW TIL that the man being executed in the infamous Saigon Execution photo had just been caught murdering police officers and their entire families, including women and small children.