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

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5V0ak TIL Pinkerton detective agency, the main antagonists is Red Dead redemption 2, are a real company founded in 1850 that still exists today, and they tried to sue Rockstar games for copyright infringement for using their name. Companies like Amazon and Starbucks have used Pinkerton for union busting
Q1x9 TIL Muhammad Ali saved a man from committing suicide in 1981 by shouting at him ‘I am your brother.’
yjMl TIL scientists have found 1.5-billion-year-old water in a mine 1.5 miles beneath Ontario, Canada
9KbM TIL the prune industry asked the FDA to relabel prunes as “dried plums” because “prunes” weren’t selling. It worked.
yQ8VV TIL that in 2015, Colorado officials had to replace the 420 mile marker on I-70 with a 419.99 marker in order to stop thefts.