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TIL that Wall Street gets it's name from the wall built around the Dutch colony in New York

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GAMLN TIL that the last words of Terry Kath (guitarist and vocalist of Chicago) were:"What do you think I'm gonna do? Blow My Brains out?" Before he put a gun that still had a round in the chamber to his temple and pulled the trigger. 8 days before his 32nd birthday.
4Xv7w TIL an Aztec nobleman wrote about a Samurai who visited America and got into a fight with the Spanish over presents.
e0db6 TIL that the film Tron (1982) was not nominated for any visual effects Oscars because the Academy considered using computers to create environments and effects to be "cheating."
rRxA0 TIL wolves killed tens of thousands of people across Europe in the 18th century. One infamous wolf called The Beast of Gévaudan killed more than 500 people, usually by tearing their throats out.
mxlgy TIL in 2013 the Pirate Bay faked moving its servers to North Korea. Various news outlets including NBC and ‘Business Insider’ reported the event as factual, without ever updating that it was a hoax.