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TIL mountains on the moon Titan are named after mountains from JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth

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rN71e TIL: The more massive a White Dwarf star gets, the smaller it becomes.
mxZlM TIL "ZIG-ZAG Man" of rolling papers fame is based on the story of a French North African soldier (Zouave) whose smoking pipe was shattered by a stray bullet during the battle of Sevastopol so he rolled his tobacco using a piece of paper torn from a musket cartridge.
E15ZV TIL Vito Corleone’s cat in The Godfather was a stray that Coppola found in Paramount lot.It purred so loudly that some of Marlon Brando’s dialogue had to be dubbed.
ZpWZG TIL A connectome is a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, serving as its "wiring diagram"
Wk8LL TIL that the famous WW2 Japanese propaganda broadcaster Iva Toguri( wrongly associated with the name "Tokyo Rose"), was an American citizen who actively assisted the Allied war effort by smuggling rations to prisoners, and making the broadcasts as much as a farce as possible.