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TIL a tractor trailer’s hitch came loose in Indianapolis and spilled 38,000 pounds of marbles on the roadway.

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D14nP TIL starting from second crusade many in Christendom believed in a powerful Indian Christian King named Prestor John who was about to come with his powerful army from east to crush the muslim armies.
Wkayo TIL the amount of data in the "digital universe" can't be quantified, but at the start of 2020 was estimated to be at around 44 zetabytes (4.4 × 10^13TB)
VBobB TIL the order of the national flags at NATO's headquarter in Belgium is moved one position further every Sunday at midnight since 1951
pQ6O TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.
5V0ak TIL Pinkerton detective agency, the main antagonists is Red Dead redemption 2, are a real company founded in 1850 that still exists today, and they tried to sue Rockstar games for copyright infringement for using their name. Companies like Amazon and Starbucks have used Pinkerton for union busting