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TIL the largest employer of musicians in the world is the US Army

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VMX7Q TIL of Eddie Chapman - a professional criminal and prolific womanizer who became an important British double agent during WWII. He once convinced both British and German intelligence to house and pay each of his two fiancees in opposite warzones. He is the only Briton to win the German Iron Cross.
OoPZ1 TIL octopuses have been observed acquiring shiny and reflective objects and planting them around their homes in the sea bed like a garden. The song “Octopus’s Garden” by the Beatles was inspired by the captain of a boat informing Ringo Starr of this fact while on vacation.
p8ve8 TIL after a Black female postmaster was wrongly pressured out of her post in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt continued to pay her federal salary and punished the town by rerouting their mail to Greenville, 30 miles away
oBnnL TIL that the Mayflower Pub in London is the only Pub licensed to sell US stamps due to it’s historical connection to the original Mayflower ship that carried the Pilgrim Fathers.
BgpPd TIL "Below the fold" is referring to the bottom half of a newspaper.