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TIL Pluto is still legally considered a planet when it passes over New Mexico

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PYM4g TIL if you remove a box turtle from the wild and don't put them back in the location you found them they will most likely die looking for their home.
KKaB TIL that California’s drought might actually be a return to normal climate, with the past 100 years being abnormally wet.
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