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TIL When Julius Caesar died, he left today’s equivalent of about $270 to each and every Roman citizen.

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N7Pje TIL Robert Tod Lincoln, son of President Lincoln was at his father’s death bed after being shot, witnessed the assassination of President Garfield, and was near by at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, when President McKinley was assassinated, although not a witness.
Pr5n TIL: The UN Security Council in New York displays a copy of one of the first recorded peace treaties, the Egyptian-Hittite Treaty
LQbZP TIL that the first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. He was also the first to use the @ symbol in email addresses, which is still used today to separate the username from the computer name!
GYOp1 TIL In Wisconsin, it is illegal to serve a customer margarine in a public restaurant as a substitute for butter (unless explicitly requested); doing so is punishable up to a $1000 fine and/or imprisonment. 97.18 (4) & (6)
xVG0o TIL Alberta, Canada, has been waging a war against rats since 1950. There are virtually no rats in Alberta.