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TIL New evidence suggests that crusaders rode horses that were the size of modern ponies.

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mx16Y TIL: Shortly after Charles Manson was arrested he wrote to one of the "Manson Family" members from jail asking her to assassinate President Ford. She approached Ford and pointed a gun at his face but was tackled to the ground by secret service agents after her gun misfired.
VMNm4 TIL The Pirate Code Was a Real Thing, In The Sense That a Ship's Code Was Seen as The Law Among a Crew
WjkN TIL a typical microwave oven consumes more electricity powering its digital clock than it does heating food.
kyD4 TIL It would take a person 59 days straight to count to one million. A man named Jeremy Harper counted to up to it for charity in 2007. He counted for 16 hours a day and raised $10,000 (one penny per number).
Xwwr TIL Nick Kroll’s dad, Jules B. Kroll, has a net worth of $1.5 billion, as the founder of Kroll, Inc. In 1972, Kroll, Inc was the largest risk consulting and corporate investigations firm. It was considered by many insiders to be the inventor of modern corporate investigation.