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TIL Ocean Sunfish (Mola Mola fish) are one of the largest bony fish and can weigh up to 5,000lbs

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epA6J TIL Marc Summers, the host of Double Dare and What Would You Do?, considered becoming a rabbi. After talking to a rabbi, he became a game show host instead
oROJ8 TIL In the 1800s, individuals secured government jobs through connections to presidents, not by merit. This practice ended after a disgruntled job-seeker assassinated President James A. Garfield, whom he believed owed him a government appointment.
OWJR TIL that the East India Trading Company once had a private army of 260,000. Double that of the British Army. It also once accounted for half of the world’s trade.
OGMEX TIL During the Second World War the Dutch Resistance and victims of the occupation were funneled 83 million guilders (equivalent to 450 million Euros 2021) by Gijs van Hall. Hall was a Resistance member and bank official who wrote millions in fraudulent loans to aid the Dutch people.
p8MeN TIL: Popup headlights were actually invented in the '30s. They came back in the 80's when auto manufacture needed a way to skirt minimum headlight height safety laws, and fell back out of fashion again due to modern regulations concerning headlights being on movable body work.