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TIL of the existence of Truckers Against Trafficking a group of volunteer truckers who work together and train others to spot human traffickers…

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grL7D TIL about Bjúgnakrækir –The Sausage Swiper, an Icelandic troll that hides in rafters and steals smoked sausages.
694Qm TIL scientists discovered a “dinosaur disco”, more than 100 tracks made by giant, long-necked dinosaurs, brontosaurs and brachiosaurs on a small shore on the Isle of Skye
GYWo5 TIL that Charles Manson’s mother once sold him to a woman for a pitcher of beer and then his uncle had to find the woman to get him back
QJvJX TIL that in 1991 a supermarket gave away 10,000 tickets to a Texas Rangers game. It tuned out to be the night Nolan Ryan threw his 7th and final no-hitter. (Fast forward to 1:54:23 for proof)
grLG4 TIL about James Croll, a real life Good Will Hunting, who used his library access while working as a janitor at Andersonian University to teach himself physics and astronomy, and then published a revolutionary theory explaining the negative feedback loop that causes ice ages.