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TIL that Samuel J. Tilden, the guy who lost the 1876 U.S. Presidential election by a razor-thin margin, bears the phrase “I Still Trust The People” on his gravestone.

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Vd1D Sean Bean is terrified of flying. So during Lord of the Rings when the cast had to fly to remote shoot locations by helicopter, like the snowy mountains, he travelled part of the way via ski-lift and then spend two hours walking the remainder of the journey, in full Boromir costume.
JYA7v TIL 75%- 80% of Japan is made up of mountains, forcing 93% of the population to live in the cities and thus the high population density in its cities.
Leyd TIL that Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in 1953 that set the first self-driving cars to be released around 2015
QJkXM TIL that the Dutch East India Company was the most valuable company in human history with it being worth almost 8 times as much as Apple is today.
PYgZL TIL America has a 'Hague Invasion Act' in which the act authorizes the USA to invade the Netherlands if any American Service Member is ever held on trial by the International Criminal Court for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes