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TIL Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is in Dauphin County. It was named Dauphin to thank France for the help in the Revolutionary War. A Dauphin is the heir to the French Throne. Sadly the young prince Louis Joseph died of tuberculosis 4 years later and his parents lost their heads shortly after.

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woywY TIL that Gloria Ramirez earned the nickname "The Toxic Lady" because doctors and nurses became ill after airborne exposure to her body. She had cervical cancer, and while treating her, three hospital workers fainted, and others experienced symptoms such as shortness of breath and muscle spasms.
R5oB7 TIL about San Miguel de Gualdape, a short-lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 somewhere in modern South Carolina or Georgia. The location had the first enslaved Africans in the modern United States, and also the first slave revolt. The fates of the Africans is lost to history.
OG0Lg TIL that Bolaji Badejo, a 6 foot 10 Nigerian visual artist, played the original Alien (1979)’s xenomorph. His height and slender body convinced Ridley Scott that he was a perfect choice for the villain. He also died from sickle cell disease at age 39.
9wQBr TIL that the first human death by a Southern Cassowary was in Australia in 1926, when the bird defeated two brothers who were trying to hunt it. The older brother was killed via his jugular vein being cut, and the younger brother was scared off after being knocked over.
G0LN TIL that in 2012, Walmart held a contest, in which the rapper Pitbull would perform in a Walmart with the most likes on its FB page. After the #ExilePitbull Twitter campaign, the shop in the remote island town of Kodiak, Alaska, ended up winning.