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TIL Lionel Messi is reportedly being given a percentage ownership stake in Inter Miami as part of his playing contract.

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ek16 TIL the X’s that you often see on the sides old moonshine jugs in cartoons and popular media actually signified how many times that particular batch had gone through the still, being that the basic pot-stills of yesteryear required you to distill the mash several times before you got pure alcohol.
jmEp TIL that the first e-commerce transaction was in the 70’s for cannabis between students from MIT and Stanford
p4OO TIL that on 4 Dec of the Year 292,277,026,596, 64-bit versions of the Unix time stamp will cease to work. This is not anticipated to pose a problem, however, as this is considerably longer than the time it would take the Sun to theoretically expand to a red giant and swallow the earth.
nM1W TIL that Germany during WW2 dropped on Britain propaganda leaflets showing Churchill carrying a machine gun, calling him a “gangster” who encouraged murder. The leaflets stopped when the Nazis realized that they made the prime minister more popular in the UK.
R77R8 TIL that eels have TWO JAWS (just like Xenomorphs from the Alien movies)