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TIL if in 2001 you bought $399 in Apple stock instead of buying the original iPod, today that stock would be worth $65,000

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PYdGE TIL that the biggest fish ever caught was a 2,664 pound great white shark back in 1959
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nWD49 TIL During the American Revolutionary era tar and feathering was used as a form of vigilante justice to punish British Loyalist traitors
loLda TIL that exactly 190 years ago, The Indian Removal Act was passed, allowing U.S. President Andrew Jackson to grant Native American tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their settlements within the borders of extant U.S. states, thereby clearing the way for further white settlement.
Z8VOv TIL that during the filming of Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone asked Dolph Lundgren to try to knock him out. Lundgren punched him in the chest so hard that he had to go to the hospital for five days.