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TIL Eating hair can result in large, undigestible masses in the stomach called "bezoars" that may require surgery to remove

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m1leO TIL that between 1718 and 1775 over 52,000 convicts were transported from the British Isles to America, mainly to Maryland and Virginia, to be sold as slaves to the highest bidder. Transported convicts made up a quarter of the British immigrants to colonial America in the 18th century.
l71KK TIL that in 1609, explorer Henry Hudson and his crew became the first Englishmen to visit Manhattan Island. The day? September 11.
wLW57 TIL Prior to humans settling Madagascar about 1,300 years ago, there were lemurs as big as apes, weighing 350lbs
N7ZbE TIL that the scene in IT: Chapter Two and in the novel where a group of teens assault a homosexual man and his partner before tossing one of them over a bridge to his death was actually based on a true story. Stephen King borrowed details from the real life event, and added Pennywise to it.
LkP9r TIL the Roanoke colony was never “lost”.