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

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4bOR TIL that Human Rights Watch doesn’t pay their interns
e09DL TIL Alex, a talking parrot with vocabulary of around 100 words, died at age of 31, his last words being very heartwarming (More info in article!)
neW TIL that the Body Mass Index (BMI) was created for a social statistics experiment, and was never intended to be an indicator of health.
KOXo4 TIL that Homer Simpson correctly predicted the mass of the Higgs boson (the God particle) 14 years before it was discovered.
e0g1L TIL seven six-foot tall Lego minifigures have washed up on European, American and Japanese beaches between 2007 and 2015. The anonymous sculptor and artist is pseudonymously known as 'Ego Leonard'.