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TIL that humans are the only animals that have chins
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TIL the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) company's main competitor was Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad which controlled the only rail access into Manhattan. In 1899 Alexander Cassatt came out of a 17 year retirement to head PRR and visited Paris where he was saw the first electric terminal.
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TIL Sarah Knauss, a supercentenarian and oldest ever American, lived for more than 119 years. She died in 1999 on the 30th of December, just 2 days shy of the year 2000.
Z80AR
TIL that a man named Jeremy Moody drowned at a lifeguard party in New Orleans. The party was in celebration of a year with no drowning incidents. There were around 100 lifeguards in attendance at this party with 4 actively on duty.
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TIL of the Staten Island Quarantine War, which began in 1800 the City of New York began quarantining patients on nearby Staten Island. Locals resisted for years, ultimately burning down the facility. At trial the leaders of the attack successfully argued that they had destroyed it in self-defense.
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TIL After John Cleese spoke negatively about the town of Palmerston North in New Zealand, the town renamed a compost heap “Mt. Cleese.”