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TIL of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society during the American Civil War that aimed to create a new country based in Havana, by expanding the Confederacy around the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea

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x6bEw TIL that there is an official world record for time traveling. It's held by cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who has spent 803 days total in orbit around Earth. According to Einstein's theories of relativity, this would mean Sergei effectively has travelled about 0.02 seconds forward in time.
JYdKV TIL A fisherman in Philippine found a perl weighing 34kg and estimated around $100 million. Not knowing it's value, the pearl was kept under his bed for 10 years as a good luck charm.
d8l48 TIL the Leeroy Jenkins video was staged
8KeG TIL The JSON Software License is non-free because it has a clause mandating: “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil”
7rLpO TIL if you decide to eat Play-Doh and are on a vegan diet, you would still be fine.