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TIL Pilgrims were fleeing religious persecution but only because they preached intolerance and did not put up with political or religious dissent.

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nQMB TIL Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a real bear, Winnipeg who lived in the London Zoo 1915-1935
loKX5 TIL about the Zone Rouge (Red Zone), areas of France so affected by WWI they have been declared off limits and defined as: "Completely devastated. Damage to properties: 100%. Damage to Agriculture: 100%. Impossible to clean. Human life impossible" Pollutants, such as chlorine and arsenic, and unexpl
Axxo TIL in 2012 a man intentionally jumped off of the monorail at the Bronx Zoo into the tiger exhibit, to be ‘one with the tiger’. He survived, and when the police asked him why he did it he replied “everyone in life makes choices”.
16rPD TIL Angry French tailors burned the first successful sewing machines setting back their use in garment manufacture by several decades
4XkaJ TIL EA Turned the Sims Online into EA-Land before shutting the servers down the same year.