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TIL there were Buffalo Soldiers who were Freemasons

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Zp5vp TIL A tablespoon of our sun weighs about 5 pounds. A tablespoon of Neutron Star (a massive star 10x larger than our sun that has run out of fuel, collapsed, exploded, and collapsed some more) would weigh 1 billion tons- the weight of Mount Everest.
MQLW TIL The Economist has an indicator of the purchasing power of a country measured in how many Big Macs could be bought in that country with $50 USD - The Big Mac Index.
jN6Ea TIL that Paul Elliot of the Chuckle brothers was in a motorcycle crash while on holiday. Instead of helping him, tourists who stopped at the accident shouted the Chuckle Brothers' catchphrase, "To me, to you".
R5W5j TIL that in the '60s, ITT Corporation won $27 million in compensation from the US for damage inflicted on its share of the Focke-Wulf plant by Allied bombing during WW2
5PnD TIL that a Chinese company rewarded its employee of the year with a night with a Japanese adult video star.