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TIL Nails at one time were so expensive that people would burn down old barns just to recover their nails.

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b64Dp TIL that the first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m. It was created in 1787 by Levi Hutchins in Concord, New Hampshire. This device he made only for himself, however, and it only rang at 4 am, in order to wake him for his job.
gr86b TIL Otters can hostage a child of another otter for food ransom
l41G TIL that a 2004 marketing study described Generation X as “the least parented, least nurtured generations in U.S. history.”
bk9Z TIL that in 1990, a 200-person, .02 sq. mile trailer park in Texas incorporated and became a city just to open a liquor store. Until 2007, Mobile City was the only place in Rockwall county you could buy any kind of alcohol outside of a restaurant.
19wd TIL baseball player Dave Winfield killed a seagull with a baseball during a game and was subsequently arrested for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal