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TIL that the Goldfish Crackers inventor created them for his wife's birthday and in the shape of her astrological sign which is Pisces and is symbolized by 2 fish.

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a8GML TIL with a radius between 640 and 764 times that of the Sun, the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse (the tenth-brightest star in the night), if it were at the centre of our Solar System, would lie beyond the asteroid belt and it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
JYe5V TIL: Before he was caught, Charles Ponzi the namesake of the Ponzi scheme successfully sued a newspaper for libel and won $500,000 in damages after it suggested there was no way Ponzi could legally deliver such high returns in a short period of time.
R5aKl TIL that in 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban American Football after 19 college students died that year playing the game. In response, 62 colleges and universities met in New York City to discuss rule changes, where they formed the athletic association that would become the NCAA.
a8dKZ TIL that Mao Zedong’s great-grandson’s name is Mao Dongdong
MeKYW TIL In 1930, an 8-story building in Indianpolis was moved 52 feet and rotated 90 degrees in a month, without the occupants losing a single day of work