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TIL...that the sun, rotates on its axis

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R74v6 TIL when Henry Ford II took control of Ford Motor Co., the first thing he did was fire his grandfather's brutal, union-busting head of security by sending his own second-in-command, a former FBI agent, to deliver the news. Both men drew handguns on each other.
WklGo TIL: Every year in ancient Athens, 500 people were randomly selected to spend the next year of their life proposing laws that the population then voted on.
Z8kBQ TIL the term "does not compute" originated as a catch phrase on the 1964 science fiction sitcom "My Living Doll"
9w80X TIL, 14 year old math Olympiad perfect scorer has been missing for 21 years, leaving a single note behind.
PYo1O TIL that the price of bread was commonly regulated across medieval Europe. As bread was essential to the lives of medieval peoples, these laws protected common people from fraudulent bakers