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TIL: In 2005, 110 people won the lottery by playing numbers found on a fortune cookie. No fraud was found after investigation.

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YpVDA TIL of the English succession wars which all started because 3 of England's potential heirs drowned in the English Channel. The white ship sank in 1120 with the legitimate son of Henry 1st, William, his bastard, Richard and his daughter Matilda, on board.
ebvJ TIL the USA collaborated with the Mafia to infiltrate and disrupt the Axis forces in Sicily prior to the Allied invasion.
dDj9Q Today I Learned that George Washington’s first 100 days as president were consequential, popular, and effective. Notably, he willingly established limits to the power of the executive branch.
p8kLZ TIL that in 1857, there were an estimated 80,000 prostitutes in London, and one out of every 60 houses functioned as a brothel
90Y7 TIL a white woman married an African slave in 1681 Maryland, even though this bound her to serve her husband’s master, and their children would be born into slavery. Their descendants, all slaves, challenged the law, but only her great-great-granddaughter won freedom 100 years later.