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TIL Denver, CO has an official mayor's residence that no mayor has ever lived in. It was donated to the city in 1998 and none of the 5 mayors since that time has opted to move in. [Source]

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TIL Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell” [Source]

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TIL that Morocco was the first country to formally recognize the United States as an independent nation in 1777. The Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship, signed in 1786, is the longest unbroken treaty in U.S. history. [Source]

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TIL that 7 in 10 Canadian drivers admit to speeding at least occasionally, with the average speeder going 12km/h over the limit on highways, 10km/h over on larger roads, and 7km/h over on residential streets. Many view this as not "technically speeding" due to lack of enforcement. [Source]

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TIL In the oldest surviving law code, some of the laws include: "If a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out half a mina of silver." and "If a man has cut off another man's foot, he is to pay ten shekels." [Source]

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TIL that it was popularly believed in ancient Rome that Emperor Nero would return from the dead to rule the Empire again as "Nero Redivivus", and this belief influenced early Christian depictions of the Antichrist [Source]

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TIL During the famine of 1328-30 many cities in Italy expelled people to preserve supplies. Florence took them in and provided aid for them along with its own citizens. They established government taskforces that implemented relief measures and spent about 60k gold florins in aid programs [Source]

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TIL of the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, made up of Alabamans who had remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War. They served as General Sherman's close escort during his March to the Sea, where his army destroyed Southern industry, property, and infrastructure. [Source]

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TIL the Calibri font caused the Pakistani Prime Minister to be disqualified from office in 2017. Forged documents about the PM's income that claimed to be from 2006 used the font, but the font was not publicly released until 2007. [Source]

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TIL Boston Corbett, who killed John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln’s assassin), castrated himself with a pair of scissors. A friend recounted he claimed “the Lord directed him” to do it. [Source]

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TIL That the US manufactured so many M1 Garand Rifles for WWII that they are still selling off the surplus today - 80 years after the war ended [Source]

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TIL Magdalene laundries were catholic institutions made to rehabilitate promiscuous women through forced labour. They housed an estimated 30,000 women who were deemed to have committed moral crimes. [Source]

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TIL that Long Island is not legally recognized as an island, but a peninsula [Source]

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TIL of Marcus Egnatius Rufus, who funded the first public (free of charge) firefighting force in ancient Rome, and was executed for conspiracy, likely because his popularity threatened the emperor Augustus [Source]

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TIL 4th Graders (& Their Families) in the U.S. Can Visit National Parks for Free [Source]

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TIL the only organization to have ever operated full scale nuclear facilities without a single serious safety incident is the US Navy, largely credited to the work of Hyman G Rickover [Source]

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TIL Madrid nearly tripled its metro network in 12 years from 71mi (114km) to 197mi (317km). One 35 mile expansion program cost as much as 1.5 mile extension in NYC adjusted for inflation. [Source]

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TIL only 3.5% of Norway's land is considered arable land [Source]

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TIL that when a formerly Christian person converts to some varieties of Slavic neopaganism, they undergo a formal ceremony called raskrestitsia (de-Christianization) which involves kneeling on twigs, as priests carrying fire walk around them in a circle. At the end, they receive a scoopful of mead. [Source]

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TIL that the Apollo spacesuits were designed and hand-stitched by seamstresses from Playtex, better known for making bras and girdles. Their 21-layer A7L suit design, built for NASA, beat competing military prototypes and provided astronauts with mobility and thermal insulation. [Source]

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TIL The diameter of the Earth times 108 is the diameter of the Sun. The diameter of the sun times 108 is the distance between the Earth and Sun. The diameter of the moon times 108 is the distance between the moon and Earth. [Source]

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TIL that pencils were invented after a massive deposit of solid graphite was discovered in England, being the only place in the world with pieces large enough to cut into solid rods. England's monopolies over these lead other countries to smuggle graphite and recycle graphite powder. [Source]

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TIL that James H. Salisbury, the inventor of Salisbury steak, was an early proponent of germ theory and invented his steak to prevent diarrhea [Source]

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TIL that opossums almost never carry rabies due to their lower body temperature [Source]

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TIL that in the 1900 Summer Olympics, the Dutch team recruited a young boy from the crowd to be their coxswain. He ran off after the team won and his identity remains unknown. [Source]

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TIL that when football player Chase Winovich was traded to the Cleveland Browns in 2022, he held an online poll for fans to pick a new jersey number. Out of 50,000 total votes, 35,000 votes were for #69. Winovich subsequently adopted the number. [Source]

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TIL The Port of Duluth is the world's farthest inland port accessible to oceangoing ships and is the largest and busiest port on the Great Lakes. [Source]

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TIL 11th president James K Polk vetoed the bill that would provide $500k to improve ports. He feared that the bill would encourage legislators to compete for favors for their home district, and doom the virtue of the republic. [Source]

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TIL that “Shanghaiing” was the practice in the 18th and 19th centuries of kidnapping men to become sailors on board ships, due to laws that imprisoned people for leaving a ship before the voyage was done [Source]

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TIL About Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe risking his career and the lives of his family. [Source]

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