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TIL Adding Sugar to a Car’s Gas Tank is a Myth and does nothing

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9Y0Kp TIL In 2001, R.E.M’s guitarist Peter Buck was indicted on two counts of assault, one count of drunkenness on an aircraft, and one count of criminal damage after he became unruly and at one point tried to steal a knife from a serving cart. He was eventually acquitted of all charges.
78Gox TIL Horseshoe crabs have saved our lives countless times.
OGAk1 TIL that Andrew Johnson is the only United States President to serve as a senator after his term as president, with his term as Tennessee Senator lasting from March 4, 1875 until his death on July 31, 1875.
rKrd TIL Japan and the Soviet Union fought a major battle in Mongolia in 1939. The Japanese defeat convinced them to maintain a truce with the USSR during most of WW2
X0aZP TIL that the largest city in the ancient mediterranean was a Greek colony called Sybaris which held up to 300,000 inhabitants, the city was destroyed in 510 BC and was lost to history until its ruins were rediscovered in 1932.