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TIL In 1923, a “fire tornado” went through Tokyo and incinerated more than 38,000 people.

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LYZQ TIL shortly after returning from the moon and leaving NASA, Buzz Aldrin had a failed career as an Air Force test pilot, started drinking, had an affair, suffered depression, got divorced, got re-married, got divorced again, and became a Cadillac salesman where he failed to sell a car for 6 months.
9wJnr TIL about Lucas Miller, a Congressman who wanted to rename the USA to "United States of Earth" and admit new states until every country was a part of the USA
GA9WJ TIL that there was an unrecognized proposed state in colonial America called the State of Franklin in what is now eastern Tennessee founded with the intent to be the 14th state.
R5jOw TIL that in ancient Rome, urine was so valuable for cleaning and tanning leather that emperors placed a tax on it.
b90mN TIL of Benjamin Ferencz. A Transylvanian-born 99 year old lawyer who was chief prosecutor in the Einzatzgruppen trial in Nuremberg. In 2016 he donated $1m to the Washington Holocaust Museum. Not only does he still continue to work to this day, but he does 125 push ups every morning