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TIL Banks used to issue "Check Guarantee" cards, it was a plastic card that told people your checks were guaranteed by the bank.

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7LM7 TIL in Minnesota, the game “Duck, Duck, Goose” is called “Duck, Duck, Grey Duck”.
VB7Nk TIL in the 1980s Bill Benter developed a statistical model that identified factors that could lead to making successful Hong Kong horse racing predictions. As one of the most successful analysis computer software programs in the horse racing market, it helped Benter win nearly $1 billion.
nD59 TIL of Kim Ung-Yong, a South Korean man who was a guest student at a university at the age of 3, was invited by NASA to conduct research at 8, and earned a PhD in Civil Engineering at 15. He also has the highest IQ ever recorded in history.
rRwJ4 TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified tens of thousands of stars, & discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula.
6lXX TIL in WW2, Owen Baggett shot down a Japanese Zero with a M1911 .45 caliber pistol. He killed the pilot who had just shot down his B24. The Zero had returned to kill the airmen who had parachuted out. Baggett, wounded, played dead until the plane got close enough and then he shot the pilot.