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TIL the King of Hanover offered convicts free passage to America with fake passports and names as an alternative to a costly prison sentence

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vnO8 TIL that any map can be colored using only four colors without any same-color sections touching each other.
ogdL TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”
0wVLM TIL that natural gas was discovered serendipitously around 500 BC in China. Bamboo pipelines were used to transport the gas, which was used to boil salt water to extract salt.
MeMMW TIL that Mahant Bharatdas Darshandas has been voting since 2004 and during every election since then, a special polling booth is set up exclusively for him as he is the only voter from Banej in Gir forest.
xawg TIL more US soldiers died in the First Gulf War from accidents and friendly fire than were killed by enemy fire