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TIL that between 2016 and 2019, there was not a single bookstore in the Bronx. Even today there is only one in the entire borough of 1.5 million people.

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m1aAy TIL King Edward I (known as Longshanks) had at least 14 children (4 sons, 9 daughters and 1 unknown) with his first wife Eleanor of Castile, but 8 of them died by age eleven including 7 by age six and 5 by age three. The only son to survive past age eleven was eventual King Edward II.
QNR8X TIL there are historical records that provide some basis for the folk tale of John Henry racing the steam drill.
7rKgb TIL that in 1939, a Maine State Representative named Cleveland Sleeper drafted a bill to outlaw the use of tomatos in clam chowder. The punishment for breaking this law was to have the individual dig up a barrel of clams at high tide, which is impossible.
kOOjE TIL of the Cistus plant which can self-ignite on fire under hot dry conditions, due to oils in its leaves.
eZ84 TIL that it was once customary for Indian women to be burned alive on their husband’s funeral pyre. A British general outlawed it, saying: This … is your custom… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them"