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TIL a poor Mark Twain sold a man a lost dog for $3, then later helped the original owner find the dog for the same amount

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PYVKw TIL The National Archives sells a replica of the Resolute desk for $8000.
XByP TIL The first US ‘Underground Railroad’ actually ran from North to South, to St. Augustine, Florida, which under Spanish control, was a free black community. Fort Mose was completely controlled by free blacks, and was an integral part of the Spanish defensive line.
Ooln4 TIL both the US and the UK have a comic strip character named Dennis the Menace and they were both coincidentally created in March 1951 by cartoonists in their respective countries who had no knowledge of what the other was working on.
16rd TIL mothers hid creepily in Victorian photos in order to hold their babies still
8a91a TIL Queen Victoria wrote an average 2,500 words per day, and her personal journal grew to a total of 122 volumes.