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TIL that NASA discovered a planet with two suns. AKA Tatooine.

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gBMD TIL in 1987, a 43 year-old man took a teenage girl out into the Californian woods to search for Bigfoot. He came back without her, saying a Bigfoot had abducted her. The man never was convicted, went free, and the girl is still missing to this day.
xV5O0 TIL that Bill Gates is making a genetically modified male mosquitoes with self-limiting gene to stop Malaria. During sex, the female mosquitoes will receive the self-limiting gene. This results in having their offspring die before reaching adulthood.
Egrao TIL there are 31 US states with a county named Washington (the most common county etymology), but Washington state isn’t one of them
8aYQG TIL that Hunter S. Thompson once tied Bill Murray to a chair and dumped him to the bottom of a swimming pool. The pair were attempting a series of Houdini-style escapes, and Thompson saved Murray just before he drowned
GAKb1 TIL that Finland has a "National Sleepy Head Day" where the last person in a household to wake up is thrown into a lake or the sea by the rest of the family or friends