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TIL Russia is bigger than Pluto

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EgdEW TIL about the popular myth of the dinosaur "butt brain" or "hind brain", a second brain located near the hips that was supposed to control the movement of the legs and tail
9AlQ TIL that in Australia, there is an orchid which grows entirely underground. It was discovered in 1928 by a farmer after he noticed a sweet smell coming from the ground. The discovery generated such excitement that a wax model was toured around the British Isles.
QJXeL TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.
jQwa TIL in 1933, three Japanese school girls crossed in love committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 800 other people leapt into the same crater.
xMM1 TIL: The black panther is not it’s own species but actually refers to any melanistic (black) big cat. This would include black leopards, jaguars, tigers or lions.