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TIL That the Indian Army tracked “Spy Drones” for 6 months until it turned out they were planets.

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69XRQ TIL: The smell of rotting potatoes can kill you
9YmYM TIL that there are more than 1,300 stone rings across the British Islands and Stonehenge is only the most famous of them.
x6r5o TIL Post Malone got his stage name by inputting his birth name into a rap name generator
b9ap7 TIL that in the original ending of the Inca-inspired animated film "The Emperor's New Groove", the titular Emperor demolishes a rainforest to create a theme park. Sting – who spent 20 years defending the rights of indigenous people – threatened to leave the project unless the ending was changed.
OoeAe TIL conductor Mstislav Rostropovich was exiled from the U.S.S.R. for supporting Democracy. When he returned in 1990, he closed his first performance in the Moscow Conservator with “The Stars and Stripes Forever” to great ovation