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TIL approximately once every 18 months (on average) a total solar eclipse is visible from some place on the Earth’s surface

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XEork TIL of Kaiser, a Brazilian conman who had a 20-year football career without ever playing a single game. He hid his limited ability with fake injuries, connection to influential figures, and other ruses. One time he even started a fight with a fan to be sent off before a game to avoid playing
b6o4N TIL that Ben Franklin's invention of the lightning rod was blamed by church leaders for the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake off the coast of Colonial Massachusetts — as his "heretical rods" interfered with the "artillery of Heaven" & deprived God of using lightning as "tokens of His displeasure."
x440 TIL In 2009 4 Ferguson City Police Beat A Man Bloody And Then Charged Him With The Crime Of Bleeding On Their Uniforms After They Discovered They Had Arrested The Wrong Man.
GJvj TIL During the filming of Titanic an angry crew member put the drug PCP into the soup that James Cameron and various other crew ate one night, which sent more than 50 people to the hospital. The person behind the poisoning was never caught.
N7xlb TIL After McDonalds lost the Big Mac trademark in Europe, Burger King added things like the “Like a Big Mac, But Actually Big” to the menu