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TIL that in 2011 a resident of Atherton, California called police to report a strange light in the sky. Police were able to determine that the strange light was the moon.

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VMd8p TIL a gang of brilliant French thieves used a vacuum cleaner to steal $800K from a bunch of grocery stores. The stores used a pneumatic tube system to convey their cash payments to their safes. They broke in and used the vacuum cleaner to suck the money out of the store vaults.
DQNbp TIL about ‘The Pizza Meter’ which refers to sudden increases of pizza orders from U.S. government offices, such as the White House and The Pentagon, before large events such as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Panama Invasion, and the Grenada invasion.
lma5 TIL Rolling luggage wasn’t invented until 1970, and initially stores didn’t want to stock it.
4XbJ TIL that ARTIE, the strongest man in the world, does the voice of KAHN on king of the hill, and he’s not even asian
Wkyjd TIL Every military working dog is an NCO - in tradition at least. Some say the custom was to prevent handlers from mistreating their dogs; hence, a dog is always one rank higher than its handler.