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TIL Jewish people were banned from England from 1290 to the 1650's

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6EQG7 TIL of Britain's ghost trains - rare train services in the UK which only see a couple of passengers every day. They're only there because closing lines and stations is difficult and costly, and rail companies would rather run infrequent services than go through the cumbersome process.
8a7PV TIL about Jahangir Khan: A Pakistani squash player who won the World Open 6 times and went undefeated from 1981-1986, winning 555 games in a row which is the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
v166L TIL Martin Couney, an owner of a freak show in the early 1900's invented an incubator to exhibit premature babies, in doing so saved thousands of lives and marked the start of advanced prenatal care for preemies.
mpER TIL despite being illegal in most states, marijuana is the United States’ largest cash crop today with a value greater than that of corn and wheat combined.
x67mD TIL about Daisen Kofun, the tomb of 5th century Japanese emperor Nintoku, and largest tomb in the world by surface area