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TIL James Bond didn’t trust anyone who tied their tie with a Windsor Knot.

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OoVB4 TIL Davy Crockett was born in a non-existent state called Franklin, later incorporated into Tennessee
16vv8 TIL that the H. L. Hunley submarine was the first sub in recorded history to sink an enemy warship.
x5rD TIL Norway has the World’s biggest sovereign fund, where it has been saving almost all the money it gets from the sale of oil and is worth almost a trillion dollars.
wowB8 TIL John von Neumann regularly recalled complete novels and pages of the phone directory. He could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head and converse in Ancient Greek at age 6, and was proficient in calculus at age 8. When he enrolled in university at 16, he had already written a research paper.
rNKEx TIL the first eyeglasses were made in Central Italy around the year 1290 (the exact date is debated),