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TIL that Leanach Cottage on Culloden Battlefield is the only remaining building from the battle in 1746

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R71nl TIL there are 177,147 ways to tie a necktie. Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, a mathematician in Stockholm concluded this number by trying each possible way.
DQwvP TIL director PT Anderson’s dad is legendary horror host Ghoulardi
LkMYp TIL thanks to the dedicated evaluation by Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (a young pharmacologist who had just started working at the Food and Drug Administration), Thalidomide was banned in the USA and worldwide in 1962. The drug caused massive birth defects such as missing ears and flipper limbs.
DaGP TIL in 2010 a plane crashed in Tripoli, Libya. All of the passengers and crew (in total 103) died except for one child, a 10-year-old Dutch child
E1JrV TIL that Ira Einhorn, a Harvard University teaching fellow and environmental activist who claimed to have been instrumental in organizing the first Earth Day, murdered his ex-girlfriend in 1977 before fleeing to France. By abusing various legal loopholes, he managed to escape prison until 2002.