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TIL of earthquake lights. Flashes of lights reported before earthquakes throughout history, only relatively recently photographed and seriously investigated.

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Bgv0b TIL in 1990, a Domino's Pizza owner in Washington DC noticed a record-breaking number of pizza orders from the Pentagon leading up to the Invasion of Kuwait. Similar increases happened leading up the Panama Invasion and Grenada Invasion; the intelligence leakage became known as The Pizza Meter
W7OEN TIL A Black Woman who was mentally ill tried to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 10 years before James Earl Ray actually succeeded.
PYJOe TIL that the British Crown owns the copyrights to the King James Version of the Bible. Passed down through the reigning monarchs the Queen now possesses the rights to those specific translations.
BraOr TIL a man from Mali stole $242million from a bank in Dubai by promising to double it using genies and black magic. Then spent it on a Miami shopping spree.
epRoD TIL the longest poem in the world is the Hindu Mahābhārata. It's more than 5 times the length of the Bible, the Iliad, and the Odyssey combined! It has 220000 verses and about 1.8 million words.