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TIL The FBI will never interrogate you if the conversation is being recorded. (never talk to the FBI without a lawyer)

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8eaX8 TIL The smallest possible size for anything in the universe is the Planck Length, which is 1.6 x10-35 m across.
DPRj TIL Canada’s 1st Prime Minister ‘Sir John A. Macdonald’ was so hammered during one of the first election debates that he started vomiting violently and had to be sent home.
8akBb TIL the US Army experimented with using "platoons" of geese to guard sites run by the 32nd Air Defense Command
BgpdW TIL the earliest Mancala boards date back to 5870 ± 240 BC and were found in the floor of a Neolithic dwelling in Ghazal, Jordan. The origin of Mancala is unknown, but it's one of the oldest games still played today.
aw6X9 TIL that the city of Detroit has its own local currency, fully backed by U.S. currency. It's printed in $3 bills and features the Spirit of Detroit over the Detroit Skyline.