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TIL that there’s a dwarf planet that orbits between Mars and Jupiter

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JYPkB TIL that actor DJ Qualls is a cancer survivor and got his distinctive looks while in remission due to his extreme diet
5A09 TIL a US PAN satellite was launched in September 2009 and is so top-secret that no military or governmental organization claimed to have built it.
VBRX8 TIL: The first black applicant to the then all white University of Mississippi was committed to an insane asylum for being crazy enough to apply (1958, Clennen King).
NbMP TIL that in Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
4kKMR TIL Charlie Chaplain met his 2nd wife on set when she was 12, got her pregnant when she was 16, begrudgingly married her at 16, divorced her at 18. He was 35