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TIL Chevron operates a couple of gas stations under the name "Standard" since they own the trademark for Standard Oil and they have to use it

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M7mYB TIL the Easter Rising leader was imprisoned in Lincoln Prison, where he became an altar boy to steal the chaplain's key and make a wax mold. He sent its shape by postcard. Friends made the key, hid it in fruitcake and sent it. 3 tries later, he escaped in 1919. He went on to be President of Ireland.
R7Y87 TIL that a Korean civil minister named Choe Yun-ui created the first printing press 150 years before Gutenberg was born.
1aBv4 TIL A devout Mormon set out in 1955 on an archaeological expedition to prove the Book of Mormon's claims. After 15 years instead he found nearly every claim in the BOM was wrong and the papyrus J. Smith claimed written by Abraham was actually just a page ripped out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
R7ZD9 TIL of William Pitsenbarger who had over 250 rescue missions during the Vietnam War and is just one of six enlisted recipients of the USAF to receive the Medal of Honor.
gMoB8 TIL That Spiders Have Blue Blood Because In Spiders Oxygen Is Bound To Hemocyanin A Molecule That Contains Copper Instead Of Iron As In Humans