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TIL that a Presidential pardon carries “an admission of guilt” with it

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BXVd TIL that the first ever storage device used by Google was made out of LEGO because it presented an easy way to store several hard-drives.
7GGM TIL the Popsicle was invented by an 11-year old boy who accidentally left his drink and stir-stick outside overnight
grMJD TIL 19th century French utopian socialist Pierre Leroux advocated the system of Circulus, which proposed human excrement to be collected as a tax by the state to be reused as fertiliser
M7LnA TIL in 1998, Gerald Blanchard parachuted onto an Austrian castle at night to steal the jewel "Star of Empress Sisi." He swapped it with a gift shop replica, and the theft wasn’t noticed for 2 weeks. His bold stunt and attention to detail made it one of the most daring heists in modern history.
vP6K TIL Disneyland workers thought it was such a horrible place to work they nicknamed it ‘Mousewitz’. When the bosses found out they told the workers to stop, they then called it 'Duckau’