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TIL a bank robber named “Pretty Boy” Floyd was known for destroying mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt.

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5VrXp TIL that the original version of the novel “The Neverending Story” was printed in two colors: Red ink for events in the real world, green for events in Fantasia. One reviewer called it “a good buy… unless you suffer from red/green colour blindness.”
68v8 TIL that Rome is north of Chicago and Paris is nine miles south of the US / Canada border
69P4W TIL: A genetic study, published in 2020, revealed Tutankhamun had the haplogroups YDNA R1b, which originated in western Asia and which today makes up 50–60% of the genetic pool of modern Europeans
KY6Aa TIL American Billionaire Andrew Carnegie Offered To Buy The Philippines’ Freedom from US Colonization For $20 Million
AaJx TIL: When Pete Conrad, who was somewhat shorter than Neil Armstrong, stepped onto the lunar surface during Apollo 12, his first words were “Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.”