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TIL that anyone can start an online business about anything

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kmV1 TIL Roberto Escobar is suing Netflix to the tune of $1B for misrepresentation of his family in the show “Narcos”
KYWv9 TIL before 1974 a trillion in the US was equal to a billion in England. (A billion US was a Milliard UK)
vBpx TIL That there is a star 50 light-years from earth in the constellation Centaurus (BPM 37093) that is pure crystallized carbon, which means it is a dimond that weighs 10 billion trillion trillion carats. Written out that would be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 carats.
yQv8e TIL that a man named Joseph Bolitho Johns (Moondyne Joe) escaped prison so many times that a special secure prison was built for him. A confident jailor said "if you get out again, I will set you free". Moondyne escaped that as well. He was caught again two years later but jailor kept his word.
N7BdM TIL the only police officer to arrest a sitting President was William H. West, a black Civil War veteran. He arrested President Ulysses S. Grant for speeding on his horse in 1872, for which the President paid a $20 bond.