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TIL the five richest women in American married into their money or were born into it.

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6EZ77 TIL Xiao Yuan once replaced 140+ paintings in a museum with his own forgeries, and sold 125 for $6 million dollars. He later found out his own fakes were being stolen and replaced with yet more copies.
VBlJk TIL of the ultra rare second-generation hybrid offspring of ligers and tigons — the litigon, liliger, tiliger and titigon.
8aAEZ TIL that the current President of the United States is the 45th President but only the 44th person to be President. This is because Grover Cleveland is counted as both the 22nd and 24th President because he served two non-consecutive terms.
R7JN6 TIL about the Southern Bread Riots. Mostly women, protesting huge surges in food costs during the Civil War, rioted in Richmond, VA with chants of "bread or blood!" Food prices had soared to prices ten times higher than normal in many instances. Among the items stolen was 500 lbs of bacon.
7BVO TIL that 1 in 4 people in Greenland have attempted suicide, making it the most suicidal country in the world