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TIL the world's first package tour was day trip from Leicester to Loughborough

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8e4dP TIL William B. Wilson, the first US Secretary of Labor, was born in Scotland and worked in Pennsylvania coal mines starting at the age of 9.
BgwEb TIL about the Alexamenos Graffito, a depiction of Jesus as a donkey aim to mock early Christians.
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npZ7 TIL if you buy a Toshiba laptop and it breaks, UPS will send you a return-shipping box, repair the laptop and ship the laptop back to you. Everyone who handles your laptop works for UPS, not Toshiba.