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TIL Bloomsburg is the only town in Pennsylvania other municipalities are Cities, Boroughs or Townships

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Mmjm TIL: Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th moon, has a warm ocean at its southern pole with ongoing hydrothermal activity—the first ever discovered outside of Earth. This is the most life-friendly habitat ever discovered outside of Earth.
JQ74 TIL the guy from the “Tips Fedora” / “M'lady” meme played Pugsley Addams in the “Addams Family Reunion” movie.
rNOOw TIL that Uri Geller bought a small island in Scotland because he believes - among other things - ancient Egyptian treasure is buried there
0wQQj TIL about the Via Francigena, a 1300-year-old Camino-style pilgrimage route from Canterbury through France and Italy to Rome.
XEOVj TIL in 1964, a bristlecone pine was killed after a graduate research student accidentally got his tree core stuck in it's trunk. The tree was cut down to retrieve the core only to find out it was the oldest known living organism known at that time. It was estimated to be over 5,000 years old.