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TIL The largest Blue Marlin ever caught on rod and reel weighed 1,800 lbs, and inside it’s belly they found a Yellowfin Tuna that weighed over 155 lbs.

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5VZB TIL that Thomas Edison said he would give Nikola Tesla 50,000 dollars if he could redesign Edison’s inefficient motors. Tesla did this, but Edison told him it was a joke afterwards, crushing Tesla.
8eyAP TIL archeologists have been using remote sensing equipment like LIDAR to find lost cities in places like Ecuador and it's revolutionizing the field with major discoveries of previously unknown ancient cities in the Americas.
YpBKW TIL the abbreviation “lb” for pound comes from the ancient Roman unit of measure “libra pondo”, meaning “a pound by weight”, which is also why we ended up calling it a “pound”.
N9O6 TIL that the annual revenue of all companies founded by Stanford alumni and faculty members is $2.7 trillion, more than the GDP of all but nine countries in the world.
99gM TIL During World War II, an RAF gunner Nicholas Alkemade fell through 18,000 feet without a parachute and survived without injuries. He was captured by the Germans, who issued him a commemorative certificate for his miraculous survival after verifying the details of his ‘story’.