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TIL in 1856 a group of prussian railroad workers stole all the silver coins from a barrel and replaced them with sand. A scientist analized samples of sand from every station on that line which led to their capture.

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E1dMw TIL In 1907, J.P. Morgan (70 yo). summoned dozens of the leading financiers to his private library and ordered them to contribute to a $25 million pool to stop the financial crisis the country was going through. he locked them in the library the whole night until they agreed on his plan.
OvRX TIL Richard Dawson (original host of Family Feud) was asked by producers to quit kissing women. He asked the audience to mail in what they wanted, 704 were against the kissing, and 14,600 wanted him to continue.
PmaE TIL that MIT has developed a super-fast camera that takes a trillion shots per second. This camera can capture light as it travels
dkdB TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
vPwK4 TIL that during a single Senate term from 1949 to 1955, Nebraska's Class 2 seat was occupied by six different senators due to two deaths, three appointments, two special elections, and one resignation.