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TIL that Jesus Christ was declared King of Poland in 2016

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wLwnM TIL about The Government Pension Fund of Norway, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. It was established to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. Today it has over 1 trillion USD in assets, including 1.3% of all global stocks and shares.
N7Z56 TIL that Ray's Pizza was started by a Mob as a front for Drugs and Money laundering, But ended up making almost the same money as their drug buisness.
Y7MQW TIL that “under the weather,” meaning, feeling ill, is from sailors. On the high seas when the wind blow hard and rough water crewmen would go below deck and down to their cabins in order to ride out the storm to avoid seasickness. They literally retreat to a location “under the weather"
78kaO TIL the first episode of X-Files spinoff "The Lone Gunmen" was about a US government plot to hijack an airliner and fly it into the World Trade Center to start a profit-making war. It was put on air on March 4, 2001.
6EmBY TIL that pith helmet was an adaptation of salakot hat native to The Philippines by the Spaniards, later on by other Europeans and eventually became seen as symbol of colonialism