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TIL Rolling luggage wasn’t invented until 1970, and initially stores didn’t want to stock it.

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ja0E TIL, of Audrey Cosens who after losing his commander took charge, directing tank fire, and then single-handedly stormed a house killing 22 Germans and took the rest prisoner. He then took 2 more houses before being killed
5Vx8Q TIL the term leap year probably comes from the fact that a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, but the day of the week in the 12 months following the leap day will advance two days due to the extra day, thus leaping over one day.
XEjWQ TIL that Allspice is not, in fact, all the spices mixed together, but rather a type of sun-dried Central American berry.
rR7Oy TIL that about 1 percent of the static on fm radio's and old crt analog TV's is caused by radio waves generated during the big bang. You can literally listen to or watch the birth of the universe.
LQ07Q TIL that Studebaker made the world's "largest living advertisement" in 1938 by planting 8k pine trees to spell "STUDEBAKER" if viewed from the sky. Even though Studebaker has been gone for over 50 years, their pine tree logo lives on and is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.