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TIL in the United States, more Frisbee discs are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs, and footballs combined.

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8p0L TIL that a there is a traditional British army drink called gunfire made of black tea and rum. Officers serve it to lower ranks on Christmas. During the Korean war, British soldiers once gave gunfire to some American MPs, causing them to drive an ARV and some Jeeps into a fence.
epnjn TIL 24 year old Clyde Tombaugh won a scholarship at University of Kansas to study astronomy after discovering Pluto. He also discovered several galactic star clusters, hundreds of asteroids, a comet, a cluster of 1,800 galaxies and other observations
lQ9K TIL that in the business environment, you’re supposed to sign with blue ink and not black because the blue ink represents the “original” document, when black ink represents the “copy.”
W774B TIL that freight trains often illegally slow down Amtrak trains.
1aDvV TIL of a mathematical formula named Rossmo's formula used to track down the homes of criminals based on where their crime-scenes were