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TIL Wells Fargo Bank is a citizen of South Dakota

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4Xgw TIL that with inflation, the original Star Wars made the equivalent of $1,428,519,200 today
v1LLD TIL of the Toba supervolcanic eruption theory which caused a global volcanic winter for 6-10 years, a 1,000 year cooling of the Earth, and might have decreased human population to 3,000 -10,000 individuals.
0wbZL TIL that hydrogen exists as a metal on other planets
rkro TIL Thomas Midgley Jr, inventor of CFC and leaded gasoline, who is regarded as having the greatest impact on the atmosphere of any single organism in history also accidentally strangled himself to death with his final invention.
g6M8 TIL When Fidel Castro seized power of Cuba He banned the board game ‘Monopoly’ and ordered every set to be destroyed because He perceived it as the pure embodiment of capitalism