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TIL that Cleveland, Ohio used to be the 5th largest city in the U.S. by population in 1920. Now it's the 45th largest.

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OYw6 TIL Edgar Allan Poe’s “The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (1838) was about 4 shipwreck survivors stranded in a boat before they killed and ate a cabin boy–Richard Parker. In 1884, a boat was stranded with only 4 survivors. 3 of the men killed and ate the cabin boy, also named Richard Parker.
EJP TIL that Ancient Greek was the official language of Greece until 1976.
d8NGr TIL : France has an Algerian skull collection
pxMO TIL that a good method for deterring cheating is endangering a subject’s self image as an honest person. Instead of asking people not to cheat, we should ask people to not be cheaters.
gM0kb TIL turkeys were once worshipped like gods by the Mayan people.