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TIL that Jesse James gave $1500 to a widow who housed him. He told her to pay her mortgage and to get a receipt. Later that day, Jesse James robbed the landlord and took his $1500 back

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kJreB TIL about the richest man in history; Mansa Musa. Musa was so rich, when visiting Cairo, he gave so many gifts, he affect the value of gold in Egypt.
b649p TIL nazi preparations to invade Britain (Operation Sea Lion) after France fell in 1940 were obvious to the British, so they began to bolster their defenses to make any invasion as costly as possible. This included removing all street, road, and railway signs to sow maximum confusion in the enemy.
PnRV TIL the color orange was named after the fruit. Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the colour was referred to as “yellow-red” (geoluread in Old English) or “red-yellow.”
Mewna TIL of Charles O'Rear, a photographer who snapped the famous grassy hill (Bliss) image used as the default background for Windows XP. Another photo of his, "Full Moon over Red Dunes," was also considered for the default, yet was denied because testers thought the sand dunes resembled buttcheeks.
wLeNo TIL that months after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Fred Rodgers and Francois Clemmons worked together to show the word how to integrate swimming pools by soaking their feet in the pool together.