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TIL Yiddish contains 251 words for the terms buy and sell
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TIL George Washington Custis Lee, the son of Confederate general Robert E. Lee successfully sued the government for its confiscation of Arlington and was paid 150,000 dollars. His lawyer was Robert Todd Lincoln the only surviving child of Abraham Lincoln.
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TIL that many marathons have a limit finishing time, after which a sweeper bus will come and pick up those who are still running.
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TIL Cesar Millan, aka "Dog Whisperer," had Jada Smith, wife of Will Smith, as one of his first clients. She was satisfied so much she paid for one year of English tutoring so he can be aired on US television.
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TIL the world's oldest known message in a bottle was 132 years old, written in German and found in 2018 on an Australian beach, with the message: ‘Could the finder please plot the coordinates it was found, and the date it was found, and send it back.’
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TIL of Earp’s Vendetta Ride, a deadly search carried out by Wyatt Earp searching for the cowboys responsible for maiming his brother Virgil and killing his brother Morgan in the Arizona Territory. The search will end with 4 dead and an arrest warrant being issued for Wyatt.