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TIL Groundwater wells in old times were dug by pick and shovel until the digger couldn't bail anymore

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roAw TIL that one of the London suicide bombers went back to the casher in a restaurant because he didn’t get enough change, just one hour before he blew himself up in the subway
loKaB TIL Fred Astaire got into show business after his mother planned a then-popular "brother and sister act" in vaudeville with his sister Adele. Fred refused to learn to dance at first, but eventually learned by mimicking his sister's steps
nnad TIL that voted fraud was a likely culprit for Kennedy’s victory over Nixon. One case in Texas had 6,138 votes cast in a county of only 4,895 voters.
xV1pb TIL that in medieval England, the Lord’s Prayer was often used as a measurement of time in medical and culinary books.
9BpG TIL Millennials are saving more money than any other generation