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TIL Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery in the American south by mailing himself to freedom. He had friends pack him into a small box, and ship him as cargo from Richmond to Philadelphia. He survived, and went on to work as a magician

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AMWa TIL that WD-40 stands for “Water Displacement, 40th formula”, taken straight out of the creator’s lab notebook
Z855B TIL of Hans Rott, a composer that went into an insane asylum after pulling a gun on a train because he thought Johannes Brahms loaded the car with dynamite. Although he died young, Rott wrote a symphony (Symphony in E) that Gustav Mahler plagiarized in his own first two symphonies.
LprP TIL - Bitcoins were developed by an anonymous software designer who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2010 he turned over the source code and disappeared. Nakamoto is believed to be in possession of roughly one million Bitcoin. In December 2013, this was the equivalent of $1.1B
PdGw TIL that Erik Estrada never held a motorcycle license while starring as a motorcycle patrol officer on “CHiPs”. He only later received one (after three attempts) when preparing for a reality show.
ADPa TIL Tic Tacs are labelled as zero sugar despite sugar being it’s primary ingredient because if a single serving contains less than 0.5 g of sugars it is allowable to express the amount of sugar in a serving as zero. One serving is one Tic Tac.