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TIL the heaviest thing you can get shipped free from Amazon is a 1,500-pound safe.

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1alm8 TIL in the Hobbit movies, Smaug is guarding 16,646,250 metric tons of gold, and it would be worth approximately 676 trillion USD.
xV9Go TIL that in Kuwait in 1991, ten Iraqi soldiers surrendered to two American journalists that they came across. They were cold and underfed and had buried their guns. They wanted to be taken prisoner so they could get food and water. The journalists obliged and then took them to a Saudi army unit.
yOLa TIL most of the “facts” about Nostradamus are false, his astrologies were false with lots of errors, he did not predict his own death correctly as it was his secretary who edited it after his death, etc.
l79l5 TIL That, in 2000, the record of Captain Charles McVay who was the only US Navy officer to be court martialed for loss of a ship (USS Indianapolis) in WW II was officially cleared by an act of Congress in part due to the research done by a sixth grade student.
9wKMr TIL that the Sandmännchen is one of the longest running TV shows and is the TV show with the most Episodes since 1959