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TIL workers in a Pennsylvania factory volunteered to live at work for 28 days straight, so they could help make protective equipment.

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mx7kE TIL: Coney Island hasn't been an Island since the 1930s. Land fill efforts turned the once Island into a peninsula.
nW5nB TIL the officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater left his post to go drinking at the same bar where John Wilkes Booth was building up the courage to shoot the President.
LQyVZ TIL that the first written mention of the card game "Blackjack" was in the novel "Rinconete y Cortadillo", written by Miguel de Cervantes (Author of "Don Quixote" ). likely because he was a gambler. The game is used by the protagonists to cheat people out of money.
j6GPE TIL humans cannot actually feel wetness; we only perceive it through temperature and pressure.
J1RDk TIL that The British Pound is the oldest currency in the world, it has been used for over 1,200 years and dated back to Anglo-Saxon era. Back then it equivalent to 1 pound of silver. One pound back then could buy you 15 cows.