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TIL Bison are faster than horses!

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nWjPW TIL of a Spokane fraudster who ran a car accident insurance fraud scheme that involved many conspirators. He would fake car crashes that involved ramming the cars himself, inflicting injuries on selected fake victims, with them even carrying bottles of urine to pour over themselves for the act.
M7K6K TIL that so many historical artifacts were found while excavating the Rome Metro's Line C that one of its stations doubles as a museum
PYRBG TIL the primetime version of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' averaged 30M viewers a night at its peak in 2000. However, ABC overexposed the show by extending it to an hour and airing it every weekday, causing ABC to drop from most-watched network to below the top 20. It was then canceled in 2002.
XEv9E TIL: There is a gravestone located in the parking lot of a Loew's movie theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
YpnQW TIL of "knocker-uppers" a profession with the sole purpose of waking people up in the morning, later to become obsolete by alarm clocks.