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TIL a butt load is an actual unit of measurement, equal to two hogsheads.

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QNkD9 TIL the word "Buckaroo" comes from the Spanish word that "cowboy" comes from: vaquero.
rLn4 TIL the Swiss Guard, known now as the guys in the vibrant clown-like costumes that stand around the Vatican holding halberds, once stood against an army as it sacked Rome. 189 Guard stood against 20,000 invaders at the Vatican long enough for Pope Clement VII to escape the city.
9Yjbp TIL a Japanese man noticed food disappearing in his fridge so he set up a security camera and found out there was a homeless woman living in the top compartment of his closet and been there for more than a year.
BvKx TIL during WW2, German soldiers disguised themselves as Americans in order to cause confusion among Allied troops. The paranoia was so great that at one point British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery had the tires of his car shot out, was dragged out of the car, and was detained in a barn for hours.
OGxk7 TIL that the alien bodies retrieved at the 1947 Roswell crash were actually deformed children created by Nazi Joseph Melenge and sent by Stalin in an effort to create panic of a Mars invasion.