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TIL there is a sculpture on the grounds of the CIA which I has four encrypted messages. The last of them has not been solved in 30 years.

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0dROp TIL The sign commemorating Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy who was killed in 1955 by two white men in Mississippi, had to be replaced with a bulletproof one because it had been repeatedly vandalized—first stolen, then shot at, then shot at again leaving it riddled with bullet holes
EgMbo TIL The real color of the Sun is white not yellow.
OonBe TIL that the do-not-call list does not work anymore; which has allowed massive robocalls to happen
nWelr TIL that Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, he was released only after lengthy negotiations between the family and the Nazis and upon payment of $21,000,000($387,575,106.38), believed to have been the largest ransom payment in history for any individual.
0dpPv TIL The number of ants on Earth has a mass greater than all birds and mammals combined. There are roughly 20 quadrillion ants in the world, around 2.5 million per human.