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TIL the peace symbol is a combination of the semaphore letters N and D, which stood for Nuclear Disarmament

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kAQB TIL th NFL moved 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona after residents there voted against recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
X0E7k TIL Daniel Lambert (1770- 1809), the heaviest authenticated person in history at that time, once fought a bear on the streets of Leicester and only gave up horseback hunting when his weight exceeded 560 pounds
KYNeJ TIL of Yoshie Shiratori, a Japanese man who successfully broke out of 4 different Japanese prisons (once using miso soup to corrode and break his cuffs). After his 4th escape, he encountered a police officer who offered him a cigarette. Touched by this gesture, he willingly turned himself in again.
X0wd8 TIL King of the Hill has an alternate final where we learn the episodes where Bill stole a tank and Hank being born in New York were just dreams Bill had.
69m1l TIL that pig butchering scammers (those random texts you get where they try to form a relationship until they take all your money) are actually slaves forced against their will to try and scam you.