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TIL CHEP started as an Australian Government initiative to reuse left over US Army pallets from WW2

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GAlpJ TIL Alexander the Great was sieging the island of Tire until he decided to turn it into a Peninsula
R7Vpj TIL Ayrton Senna had planned to raise an Austrian flag in honour of Roland Ratzenberger after he crashed and died in 1994 San Marino Grand Prix qualifiers. Senna also died in that very race. When track officials examined Sennas car, they found the furled Austrian flag in the wreckage.
mAjO TIL of Edward Jones aka “the Boy Jones”, a 14 year old who broke into Buckingham Palace multiple times while disguised as a chimney sweep and ran off with Queen Victoria’s underwear
R7Pow TIL Botanist Robert Brown was not the first who discovered Brownian motion (It was Jan Ingenhousz) and Einstien was not the first who described it. But Einstien used Brownian motion to calculate the size of an atom.
rR9Xx TIL That when the Saints won their Super Bowl the first thing shouted in the locker room was ‘It’s the fuckin’ Catalina Wine Mixer!’ from Step Brothers.