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TIL first roller coaster started to transport coal down a hill. But, after people found that it could reach speeds up to 50 miles per hour, tourists asked to ride on it for a few cents.

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xVadb TIL that Oliver North once gave the wrong bank account number, and accidentally transferred $10,000,000 to a Swiss business man. (1986)
VWMG TIL As a result of where fighting began in 1914 and ended in 1918 on the Western Front (Mons, Belgium), the first and last soldiers of the British Empire to be killed in the First World War are buried in the same cemetery.
7jpp TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century confidence trickster who fooled over 500 people over 5 years to buy land in a fictional Latin American country called Poyais he claimed had been made ruler of. About half of the people who bought land died. He made a fortune, and was later tried and aquitted.
oBWJ8 TIL that Hitler only had four teeth when he died.
oRNQr TIL that in 1851, Scotsman Sir David Brewster invented a 3D photographic device called the Lenticular Stereoscope, which was used to take thousands of 3D photos of people in countries such as Japan.