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TIL that American Express was founded in 1850 as a shipping logistics company. Its first charge card wasn’t introduced until 108 years later.

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Bw0r TIL with the success of his single Jingle Hell, Christopher Lee became the oldest musician to ever enter the billboard hot 100.
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5YRXn TIL that Tiger Moths can beat their wings in a way that noise cancels a hunting bat's echolocation attempts to find it.
WKeX TIL Alexander Hamilton and James Madison both claimed to have written numbers 49-58 and 62-63 of the Federalist Papers. In 1964, a computer analysis of the text revealed that Madison was indeed the author of all 12 of those essays, despite Hamilton’s claim to the contrary.
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