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TIL horseshoe crab blood is worth 60,000$ per gallon

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xVKwb TIL during the Civil War a Maine woman was captured at sea by Confederate pirates but escaped by getting them blackout drunk and then convincing their slave crew to "make them prisoners" and sail with her to freedom.
E7wX TIL that the United States of America placed 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps. Their property was confiscated before they entered the camps. It was never returned. Tax records were destroyed which meant camp attendees could not claim compensation for property loss.
wL7K7 TIL the official state sport of Maryland is jousting
wVwW TIL On Scrubs, Dr. Cox’s trademark of calling J.D. by girl’s names is what McGinley does in real life (jokingly) to his good friend and neighbor John Cusack.
e0ap4 TIL about the Kogi tribe, an indigenous people who choose their priests at birth and raise them in a dark cave for a decade to connect them to the earth.