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mxG5o TIL About Abbie Sweetwine, an African American Nurse who helped save passengers in Britain's largest peacetime accident, Harrow & Wealdstone
J88j TIL “Bill Nye the Science Guy” was cancelled after 20 years because due to “Hollywood accounting” the producers had never shown a profit
W7QNA TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 families on the Mayflower.
WkmgL TIL American currency went as high as $10,000, with $5,000, $1,000 and $500 bills also in circulation. They were discontinued in 1969 for “lack of use.”
R6WQ TIL that in Thailand, there is a prison program where prisoners fight foreign MMA fighters for their freedom. After winning 8 fights the prisoner is freed, if you lose a fight, you go back to general population where you never have a chance to fight again.