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TIL Most all road signs in the US are made by prison inmates

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voXK TIL: Woolly mammoths were still around when they were building the pyramids. In school they taught woolly mammoths were around during the ice age, tens if thousands of years ago, in fact they were around a lot longer than that, up until 1700B.C. 900 years after the first pyramid began construction.
b96EE TIL Rastafarianism is the 5th-largest religion in the United States
wLrK1 TIL, that an Italian banker, Gilberto Baschiera is considered a modern-day Robin Hood. Over the course of 7 years, he secretly diverted 1 million euros to poorer clients from the wealthy ones so they could qualify for loans. He made no profit and avoided jail in 2018 due to a plea bargain.
vPXXK TIL: Only one major conspirator of the failed July 20th (Operation Valkyrie) plot to assassinate Hitler survived World War II. He went on to become a leading figure in NATO.
OQja TIL: A slave called Gordon escaped from the South and used onions to throw the bloodhounds of his scent