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TIL casting away a ship carries the death sentence penalty

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oROEY TIL that the Bazacle Milling Company was a joint-stock company of watermills founded in Toulouse, France. Starting from the 14th century, shares of the capital were freely bought and sold, and dividends were paid in flour until 1840. The company was nationalised in 1946
60eQ TIL that plantation owners from South Carolina paid a higher price for slaves the came from Gambia and Sierra Leon because these blacks knew how to grow rice and could show their slavemasters the process.
b9Ej4 TIL There are over 7,500 cultivars (varieties) of apples, meaning if you ate one every day, it would take over 20 years to taste them all
J7m8 TIL London has a secret, 2nd underground rail network
v8kK TIL that according to Mormonism, after being expelled from the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve went to live in Missouri.