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TIL Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming, who is best known for creating James Bond

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9wg9D TIL that despite there having been only 21 popes named John, the most recent one was numbered XXIII due to clerical errors introduced in the Middle Ages that resulted in Antipope John XVI being counted for centuries and John XX being skipped entirely.
JoDj TIL a man accidently threw away a hard drive holding 7500 bitcoins, which would have been worth $9M at its height, or $4.5M today
ANDra TIL there is an earthquake zone in southern Missouri, and there was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake there in the early 1800s. The nature of the bedrock there means quakes can shake an area 20x bigger than quakes in California. There is a 1 in 10 probability of another in the next 50 years
LkaQd TIL that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is in fact completely hollow inside
69Ny7 TIL that Roman Soldiers were not allowed to marry until the Second Century AD. Until then wives were illegal and any children were considered illegitimate.