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TIL Irene Bergman is the oldest woman on Wall Street at 100 years old she’s still managing money for clients

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GdR1 TIL China is rapidly building a “supercity” expected to house 130 million and cover an area the size of Kansas
88DX TIL that lobster used to be so plentiful that servants in Massachusetts had a clause in their contracts demanding they not be fed it more than 3 times a week.
4XoRg TIL about Ligertown, an incident in Idaho where about 50 sheriff’s deputies, SWAT teams, Fish and Game officers and Idaho State troopers killed 15 lions whose escape from a chicken wire-enclosed game compound for lions, tigers and crossbred "ligers″ forced parents to keep their children indoors.
p8WVb TIL that the idea that homeowners own the airspace above their homes comes from medieval Roman law “Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos” ("Whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell.")
W7Jm9 TIL In 1944 the Japanese Cruiser IJN Tone sunk a British freighter and took 108 survivors onboard, against orders. Admiral Sakonju ordered the prisoners be 'disposed of' and 76 were taken out to sea and Beheaded. Sakonju was hung for war crimes in 1948.