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TIL Harriet Tubman (1823-1913) was alive at the same time as John Adams (1735-1826) and Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).

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veQD TIL: 75% of IKEA’s product images are not photographs
GYvW4 TIL Italian police officers posed as "pizza delivery boys" in order to arrest mafia boss Roberto Manganiello of Naples’ notorious Camorra mafia, listed as “one of Italy’s 100 most dangerous criminals” as he watched football in his apartment. He offered no resistance to the fake "delivery boys."
R7kQa TIL that the Babylonians actually discovered Trigonometry about 1,500 years before the Greeks. Not only were their tables more accurate because of their base-60 numerical system (which made thirds more accurate), but their approach using ratios is something relatively novel to us, today.
6poX TIL: The British used to tell their orphans were going on a ‘day trip’, only to put them on a boat for six weeks and forcibly relocate them to Australia
nWW1P TIL In 1908 the town now known as Port Aransas, Texas banned the sale of alcohol to foreigners. In response an immigrant businessman built a small floating saloon where the town ordinance did not apply.