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TIL: Mary Anne and Ginger are the last two surviving members of Gilligan's Island.

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j68mQ TIL Province House in the British colony of Prince Edward Island was completed in 1848. It housed the 1864 Charlottetown Conference which led to the birthplace of Canada's Confederation in 1867. However, the conference's original intent was only to discuss a Maritime Union
lo6Za TIL longtime Nintendo president and owner Heroshi Yamauchi also owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team for over 20 years but never went to a game.
6E0DY TIL that "Billion" is the European name for "Trillion" in the US (10^12) and "Trillion" is the European name for "Quintillion" in the US (10^18).
ANaAo TIL The seemingly nonsense phrase 'Fee-fi-fo-fum' from the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk is likely a sentence in ancient Gaelic meaning "Behold food, good to eat, sufficient for my hunger!" The phrase is atleast several hundred years old and is referenced by Nashe and Shakespeare.
oRlr7 TIL of Deborah Sampson. She was a woman from Massachusetts who disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After her sex was revealed in 1783 she was honorably discharged at West Point.