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TIL above Olive Riley, a blogger who posted over 100 videos on Youtube documenting her life through WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. She was born in 1899 and died in 2008. Her videos are still public today.

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RBR7 TIL that in parts of Philadelphia you must be fingerprinted to trade in games at GameStop.
8elaa TIL that the idea of a Potemkin Village was used in multiple countries to cover up an unpleasant or damaging part of town. It derived from stories of a former lover of Catherine II who wanted to impress her so he made portable villages and moved them to reuse in the next part of Crimea, 1787
R55Zw TIL that the Seattle Mariners are the only MLB team that has never appeared in a World Series (the Brewers and Rockies have one loss each, while the Padres, Rays, and Rangers have 2 losses each)
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