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TIL that there are dozens of houses in Detroit for sale at $1 a piece.

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NyrQ TIL BBC World Service was originally called “The BBC Empire Service”
BXyy TIL Legendary cult Chessmaster Misha Tal got up from his deathbed, snuck out of the hospital, beat World #1 Garry Kasparov in a chess tournament, and then went back to the hospital to die.
wLE9o TIL: The US women's national soccer team has never finished worse than 3rd place in the history of the Women's World Cup
yQPrv TIL of Saturn, an American Alligator born in 1936, who is rumoured to have met Hitler and survived the Battle of Berlin as one of only 96 out of 16000 animals from the Berlin Zoo to survive WW2. He was moved to Moscow Zoo after the war where he still lives today.
aw6jM TIL that Tristan da Cunha, a British island in the Atlantic 2400 km away from the nearest continent, is a commune, where all land is communally owned and cattle numbers are restricted to discourage wealth accumulation.