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TIL of William Blount, an early congressman who conspired to start a war with Britain to increase the value of his speculated land

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GYn45 TIL of Chen Si, a Chinese man who has spent every weekend since 2003 voluntarily patrolling the world's most popular suicide site. As a result, he has prevented over 300 people from jumping over the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.
DQDgg TIL that while the US Men's "dream team" was dominating basketball in 1992, the women's team actually suffered its only Olympic loss in the past 40 years, and went home with a bronze
5ZY8 TIL in 1952, Wernher von Braun wrote a book called “Project Mars” which imagined that human colonists on Mars would be led by a person called “Elon”
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