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TIL A 2023 survey found that more Americans know their horoscope sign than their blood type

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jNgkE TIL that Ferrari's famous "prancing horse" logo was coined because one of Enzo Ferrari's best friends gave him a necklace with a prancing horse just before taking off and then getting shot down in a WWI dogfight over the Isonzo Front
0drE5 TIL that Edward I of England was invited by Scotland's nobles to arbitrate a succession crisis over the Scottish throne. Edwards attempts to use this to assert overlordship over Scotland led to a 32 year war of independence.
v1GOR TIL - In 1836, a sewer worker accidentally discovered an old drain which ran directly into the Bank of England's gold vault. He wrote letters to the directors of the bank and requested a meeting inside the vault at an hour of their choosing - and popped out of the floor to greet them
pgBO TIL in Rocky (1976), Rocky 2 (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006), Rocky’s pet turtles Cuff and Link were the same two turtles each time.
rRD6e TIL that the discovery of radium ignited a health fad in the early 1900s that saw it being used as a medical cure-all, in lipsticks, chocolates, toothpaste, water, health spas, treatment of impotence and chicken-feed!