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TIL - Home Insurance Companies are one of the largest investors in Fossil Fuels

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PYP4V TIL that Theodore Roosevelt --a successful boxer at Harvard, got into a bar fight after a man called him 'four eyes' in reference to his spectacles and suggested he pay for drinks. The man held two guns and told Roosevelt to "set up the drinks." Roosevelt knocked him out and took away his guns.
jNamX TIL About Col. Rick Rescorla who anticipated the 9/11 attack on the WTC and saved over 2,600 people by leading them out when it happened
oBD4W TIL that Hitler was an avid coprophiliac
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9wZRD TIL that if the salt in the ocean was removed and spread evenly over the Earth’s land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet (166 meters) thick, about the height of a 40-story office building.