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TIL that Soviet Unions party's last chief treasurer allegedly killed himself in 1991, he was responsible for the party's assets, estimated to be worth nearly $9 billion, which have never been located since

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6E5Om TIL: Punchcards were invented to solve the problem of the 1890 US Census. It took 8 years to process the data of the 1880 census, so Herman Hollerith invented punch cards for tabulation, ushering in the era of data storage, databases, and supercomputers.
8onV TIL that author Anaïs Nin juggled two husbands (one in NY, one in LA) who only knew of each other after her death. To maintain the double life, she kept a “lie box” containing two sets of prescriptions and chequebooks in different names.
Kx0E TIL that over a span of six years, pharmaceutical companies have sent 400 pain pills to West Virginia for every person living in West Virginia.
x6MRo TIL about Thomas Cranmer, a Catholic priest who helped lead the English Reformation under Henry VIII and Edward VI. He even secretly married in Germany before it was allowed. When Mary I took power, she reversed the reforms, branded him a heretic, and had him burned at the stake.
VBJyk TIL New Orleans was the wealthiest city in the US during 1830-1840. By the 1860's, New Orleans had the 3rd largest port in the nation and was 2nd overall in per capita income in the US.