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TIL Sears created Allstate and The Discover Card!

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rOR4 TIL that the Mirny diamond mine in Siberia is a hole in the ground so big, that the air space above it had to be declared off-limits after it kept sucking in helicopters that strayed to close to it.
78R5P TIL: King Charles III and the British Royal Family own 6.6 Billion Acres of land equivalent to one-sixth of the surface of the earth. Locations include London, rural Britain, and more than 90% of the land in Canada.
D1Zjg TIL of the “Fruit Machine”. In 1961 the Canadian government hired a university professor to develop a machine to identify gay people. It was at the height of the Cold War and homosexuals were thought to be more susceptible to communism.
5YZvp TIL that Russia is one-ninth of the world’s land mass and it has 11 time zones.
Lkk0v TIL that candy cigarettes are fully illegal in 12 countries.