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TIL that IBM made bombsights, rifles and engine parts during WWII

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XVp6 TIL that when the Knights Templar were dissolved across Europe in the 14th century, the Portuguese branch simply changed its name to the Order of Christ and survives to this day.
awKZb TIL that California's population (39.6 million) is larger than that of Canada (38.2 million) and Australia (25.9 million)
JRK4 TIL the punishment for cross dressing in Saudi Arabia is a mandatory life sentence.
69RNm TIL a man called Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer of planetary science and a founder of astrogeology became the first and only person to be buried on the moon when his ashes arrived there with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on July 31, 1999.
LQZZ TIL There is a pirate ‘stock exchange’ in Somalia where locals can invest in pirate gangs planning hijacking missions