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

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X0b58 TIL when Galileo discovered Saturn’s rings, he sent letters to his fellow Astronomers announcing this, but in code. One of the people who got this letter was Johannes Kepler, who misinterpreted it as saying there were two moons of Mars. The two moons of Mars would not be discovered until 1877
0d6mp TIL that footage from an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm was used as evidence to exonerate a man who was accused of murder.
6BA8 TIL there was a song written in the 1630s that was performed only in the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican kept the composition of the piece secret for 150 years until the 14-year-old Mozart listened to the piece 2 times, transcribed it from memory, and produced the first unauthorized copy of the song.
mxjVv TIL: Most of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride was fabricated. The operation was to be done discretely as possible and Revere most likely said "the regulars are coming" due to the colonists considering themselves British at the time.
Yp00d TIL in order to keep Genghis Khan’s burial site a secret, Khan’s successors killed anyone who witnessed his funeral procession. Some 800 soldiers are said to have massacred the 2,000 people who attended his funeral, before being summarily executed themselves.