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TIL Trevor Moore of The Whitest Kids U’ Know became the world’s youngest published cartoonist at the age of 12 with his book “Scraps”

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w0G6 TIL that the word ‘mortgage’ comes from Old French, meaning 'death pledge’
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edk6 TIL that Crassus, a Roman general and also one of the richest men in history, used to purchase buildings on fire for a very low price and then put the fires out with his trained army of 500 slaves and rebuild them. If the owners refused to sell their property, he would not engage in firefighting.
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