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TIL that we visited the moon before wheeled luggage was invented

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gMLwW TIL that there are many more units of data bigger than a terabyte. 1 Yottabyte is the biggest unit of data and it's so big that it is 1208925819614629.25 Gigabytes or 1208925819614 Terabytes of data.
Me7Ka TIL during the Great Depression people often made clothes out of feed sacks. Seeing this, distributors started to print their feed sacks with different colours and patterns to help people remain at least somewhat fashionable.
5Yrmr TIL that in 1985 the mayors of Rome and Carthage signed a symbolic peace treaty to end the state of war between the two cities technically going back over 2100 years.
lowpG TIL that in some cultures, the 'checkmark' is used to denote wrong, or incorrect items, including Finland, Sweden and Japan.
xVmE0 TIL Hairspray star Divine was contracted to play a recurring role as the Uncle in TV comedy "Married... with Children" but died the day before the shooting began. The subsequent episode "All in the Family" was dedicated to Divine's memory.