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TIL A Chicago Woman named Jeanette Taylor was approved for affordable housing 29 years after applying

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e1RJ TIL that Vikings once seized Paris and held it at ransom until they received 2,570 kilograms of Silver and Gold
rWKw TIL in 1814, British soldiers invading Washington, DC arrived at the White House to find food, wine, and arrangements for a lavish dinner party Dolley Madison had prepared prior to fleeing the coming invasion. The soldiers sat and ate the meal and drank the wine. Then they burned down the house.
wPro TIL that in Rome the ruins of Pompey’s Theatre (the temple where Julius Caesar was assassinated) is now a protected cat sanctuary. This important historical site is now a no-kill zone for various breeds of cats to live peacefully
9YmYM TIL that there are more than 1,300 stone rings across the British Islands and Stonehenge is only the most famous of them.
1arvP TIL on Titan, the atmosphere can hold the equivalent of about 10 meters of liquid before rain forms vs. only a few centimeters on Earth. So Titan's weather is expected to feature torrential downpours causing flash floods, interspersed by decades or centuries of drought.