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TIL New York has a memorial to Benedict Arnold's leg

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OGBW6 TIL that when Queen Elizabeth II dies, no comedy programming will air on the BBC for 12 days.
xVNw TIL that of the twelve people who have walked on the Moon, only eight are alive and the youngest is 76.
xp8k TIL there was a genocide against the Indians in California from 1850 to the 1860’s that lowered the Indian population in the state by 90% from over 300,000 to 34,000
EgOdP TIL By the 1700s, aristocrats started eating tomatoes, but they were convinced the fruits were poisonous because people would die after eating them. In reality, the acidity from the tomatoes brought out the lead in their pewter plates, and they actually died of lead poisoning.
9Y11G TIL In 1997, Boris Yeltsin refused to allow the President of Belarus to let his aircraft into Russia, forcing him to cancel a regional visit. Yeltsin sent a telegram saying the visit could take place only under certain conditions related to the release of a television journalist detained in Belarus