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TIL: On May 24, 1626, Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan for the equivalent of $24 worth of beads and trinkets.

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Z8yQv TIL whilst working as a marine-biology teacher in 1986, Stephen Hillenburg was asked to create an educational comic about anthropomorphised sea life. He later adapted the characters within it, such as "Bob the Sponge", into one of the most popular and longest-running children's series of all time.
YplRW TIL of the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes, which were powerful enough to cause the Mississippi River to flow backwards for a few hours.
MP5m TIL that a snail spent years glued to a card in the British museum before they realized it was alive
b9P8E TIL: American Dialect Society (founded 1889) has voted for Singular 'They' as 'Word of the Decade' for its growing use to refer to a known person whose gender identity is non-binary.
wLZlW TIL the 2012 Red Dawn remake was shot with the invading militia originally being Chinese, but was digitally altered in post-production to North Korea.