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TIL that in Chicago circa. 1858, multi-story wooden-frame buildings, sometimes entire rows of them, were put on rollers, businesses kept open, and moving them to the outskirts of town was so common as to be considered nothing more than routine traffic.

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0V7M TIL that the heated water in the barrel of the Vickers machine gun was sometimes used to make tea for British soldiers during World War I.
1OR7 TIL that even though Vin Diesel’s part in Guardians of the Galaxy consists only of saying “I am Groot” repeatedly, Diesel had the director explain to him what his character was trying to express with each line. Diesel did multiple takes on each line until he was happy with it.
dAdK TIL that in 1997 a 23 year old French man took the identity of 16 year old missing child from San Antonio, Texas. Which got him from Spain, to America, got him a U.S. citizenship and fooled the family that he was their child.
GdWG TIL According to H.H. Holmes, “Americas first serial killer”, he had a fear of doctors, and his classmates forced him to go in a doctor’s office and stare at a human skeleton. This made him interested in death, and started his obsession with killing animals, and then humans.
4XKDg TIL that Julius Caesar was captured by pirates and negotiated his own ransom up. From time to time he would threaten to have them all crucified. After the ransom was paid and Caesar went free, Caesar managed to raise a naval force despite holding no office, capturing the pirates and crucified them.