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TIL during 19th century construction of Paris’s underground sewers, workers found lost medieval dungeons, jewels, and the skeleton of an orangutan that had previously escaped from the zoo.

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wLmOM TIL Kano Jigoro, the father of Judo, asked to be buried in his white belt to be remembered as a learner and not the black belt master that he was.
lo5aB TIL that eminem’s high score in donkey kong put him in the top 30 of all time in 2010.
9YZA6 TIL A 227-year-old tree planted by George Washington was pulled down by the wind last year.
woJ6o TIL that despite presumably dying in a plane crash on Oct 16, 1972, US Rep. Hale Boggs legally continued to hold the office of House Majority Leader until Jan 1973.
0Kj1 TIL that Africa is the only continent that is in all four hemispheres. (Northern, Southern, Western, Eastern)