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TIL downtown Seattle actually sits on top of the original city from the 1800s. It was rebuilt on top of ~20-foot high walled tunnels following a great fire, in order to prevent floods from high tide and sewage. You can go underground to see the original city remnants.

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R5ge4 TIL about an invented language from the 1800s called Esperanto. Its goal was to become a "world language" and the founder LL Zamenhof constructed it to be very easy to learn. It can be found on Duolingo and is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.
N7vyJ TIL The First sporting event ever filmed was in 1894 James "Gentlemen Jim" Corbett fought Peter Courtney in 6 one-minute rounds at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. This small piece of Round 1 is all that remains and is the oldest surviving footage of a sport being filmed.
xVj1k TIL that the F.R.E.D (Field Ration Eating Device) is a multi-tool consisting of a bottle opener, can opener, and spoon, commonly used by the Australian military. However it's also widely known as the "Fucking Ridiculous Eating Device".
gr9g7 TIL the Flux Capacitor from Back to the Future is called the Dimensional Transition Device in the Japanese dub (次元転移装置, Jigen Ten'i Sōchi)
R79b1 TIL in 1941 California built a prison for violent inmates where cells were unlocked and there was only a short barbed-wire fence around it