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TIL Miami is the only major US city founded by a woman.

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4XdLg TIL in 1984 an 8 year old girl with sickle cell disease developed acute myeloid leukemia. To treat the cancer, the doctors gave her chemo and a stem cell transplant from her sibling. Not only did this cure her cancer, but it cured her SCD too. She remains disease free nearly three decades later.
DLPV TIL TED revokes your TED fellowship if you don’t attend every event of the conference, per the fellowship agreement. Writer Eddie Huang later went on to compare TED to a “Scientology summer camp”.
9wNVB TIL That in 2007 David Letterman became so obsessed with the Michael Martin Murphey song "Wildfire", discussing and dissecting the lyrics with Paul Schaffer among other things, that it culminated in the then 62 year old Murphey being invited to perform the song on "Late Night".
W84B TIL In a 2012 interview with TheWrap, Morgan Freeman explained his religious views as follows: “It’s a hard question because as I said at the start, I think we invented God. So if I believe in God, and I do, it’s because I think I’m God.”
KOjVE TIL the Bearded Vulture's diet is 70-90% bones and often swallows them whole