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TIL that Finland's Lågskär island lighthouse contained the world's first rotating gas lighting device

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LV8V TIL Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates - he played games with them and joked he’d return and hang them all. After he was released, he raised a fleet, tracked them down, and crucified them all.
7OVr TIL that there’s only 24 GPS satellite’s orbiting the earth, for all of mankind.
v5bD TIL that a guide dog calmly led 30 people down 1,463 steps out of the World Trade Center on 9/11 despite the confusion, smoke, and noise around them. Once safe, the dog then helped a woman who was blinded by the debris.
VPvQ TIL that during the Korean War, the U.S Military ran out of mortar rounds and as a result accidentally ordered thousands of crates of ‘Tootsie Rolls’ candy. This is because the U.S Army used 'Tootsie Roll’ as a slang code for mortar shells.
N7KvN TIL that an estimated 120,000 prisoners in the United States prison system have been wrongfully incarcerated.