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TIL A California teenager traded up an old phone on Craigslist for different items until he eventually acquired a Porsche

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yVdDe TIL Little Ice Age (16th - 19th century) led to bad harvests, hunger & starvation for millions of people; increased disease and crime. The 17th century was marked by pronounced political instability and upheaval, such as the English revolutions & wars in Spain, Italy, China, and the Ottoman Empire.
p8E1Q TIL that one degree of latitude equals 69 miles
N7X0Q TIL One of the landing gears to the planes that hit the twin towers on 9/11 wasn't discovered until 12 years later wedged between an Islamic community center, and another building.
nR8d TIL that if you send a letter to Israel addressed to god, they will place it in the Western Wall, where visitors traditionally place handwritten notes of prayer and wishes in the cracks between its stones.
QJJra TIL that in 2014, a group of ameteur rocket scientists hacked into a NASA probe that had been decommissioned in 1997.