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TIL the term "piggyback" was originally "pick pack", meaning carrying someone like a pack on your back. Pigs do not carry each other on their backs.

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D1M6p TIL the bassist of the band Explosions in the Sky (famous for the Friday Night Lights soundtrack) got detained in an airport post-9/11 when "This Plane Will Crash Tomorrow” was found written on his guitar. The phrase was coincidentally on the album artwork of their latest release right before 9/11.
VM6Q TIL that nothing bad happens when one eats Silica Gel, those little packets with “do not eat” stamped on the side.
XELw6 TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Ramzi Yousef (the 1993 World Trade Center bomber), and Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma City bomber), all became friends in prison, and regularly discussed religion and politics until McVeigh's execution.
kJl61 TIL that in his will, George Washington left directions to emancipate all of the enslaved people that he owned after the death of Martha Washington. On January 1, 1801, all of the enslaved people he owned were freed. The Emancipation Proclamation was put into act on January 1, 1863, 62 years later.
mR6E TIL in 2010, a 3-year old boy playing with his father’s metal detector for the first time discovered a 16th century golden pendant estimated to be worth $4 million.