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TIL Greenland is portrayed about 14x larger than its actual size on most maps

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BgAD TIL that a blackout-drunk trader managed to buy $.5 billion in oil futures, causing the price of oil to spike.
WMKX TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, just for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing hearing aids, which he needed. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.
1ZjP TIL Matthew McCounaughey advocates cutting your hair to coincide with the phases of the moon in order for it to grow thicker.
N5DM TIL in Chicago over the last decade more Americans have been murdered than have been killed in Afghanistan.
59j8 TIL Field Marshal Rommel was involved in the 20 July plot against Hitler but, because of Rommel’s immense popularity, Hitler decided to force him to commit suicide rather than have him tried as a traitor with the other conspirators. The public were told he died from combat wounds.