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TIL the man who discovered Pluto had his ashes placed inside the New Horizons space craft that just passed Pluto

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6NrQ TIL that Russia gifted the United States with the “Tear of Grief” or Teardrop Memorial after the 9/11 attacks as a symbol of struggle against terrorism
pYDNN TIL that native South American monkeys floated there from Africa circa 30mya. They were probably living on river islands that discharged into the Atlantic and then drifted across on ocean currents, with volcanic staging posts along the way. Lemur ancestors arrived in Madagascar by the same process.
69m7Q TIL the Hoover Dam was completed 2 years ahead of schedule
xV76k TIL “Tater Tot” is trademarked by a company called Ore-Ida and were created from using leftover scraps from slicing French fries.
nexYW TIL astronomers found a huge cloud of dust containing ethyl formate, the same chemical that gives raspberries their taste, in the middle of the Milky Way.