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TIL about Harvey Balls, a type of visual shorthand for conveying qualitative information that is often used in rating systems

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gMr8A TIL Ali Farka Touré (3-time Grammy award winner) was the tenth son of his mother but the only one to survive past infancy.
wL86P TIL: NYC Central Park cost more than Alaska. New York State legislature paid about $7.4 million dollars for 843 acres starting 1853. A few years later in 1867, the US bought the 600,000 square miles of Alaska for $7.2 million
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gMblW TIL about Boris Weisfeiler, a Soviet-born American mathematician who was kidnapped in 1985 — allegedly for his Jewish faith — by the Colonia Dignidad, a Nazi commune in Chile. His fate remains unknown, as several witness have claimed to have seen him in the Colonia even decades later.