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TIL the population of Baltimore is less now than it was a hundred years ago

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XEXbj TIL da Vinci was given a vineyard as payment for making The Last Supper, which was bombed in WW2, and the DNA of those vines is being used to recreate the wines he had
EgVY0 TIL of Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) who was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
nep7b TIL: Before the invention of toothbrushes, Europeans cleaned their teeth with rags rolled in salt or soot while Indians and Africans chewed on sticks from the Salvadora tree.
kODE5 TIL the Netherlands does not have stray dogs.
XE816 TIL that the famous lawsuit in which a lady sued McDonald‘s after her coffee was actually justified. McDonald‘s served coffee far beyond industry norm (180-190°F), causing third degree burns on her thighs, 8 days of hospitalization, and skin surgery.