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TIL that in 1726, an Englishwoman from Surrey tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits

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X0pnD TIL Texas almost sent it's state militia to seize Santa Fe from the United States government by force and could have triggered an earlier American Civil War in the 1850s with prominent Southern and Northern newspapers or legislators warning about this possibility
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W7QVB TIL of socialite Ida Wood: in 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later
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