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TIL that an iPhone would have cost over $3.5 Million in 1991.

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6k0l TIL in 1984 the FBI declared the Key West Police Department a criminal enterprise, and several high-ranking officers were arrested for running a protection racket for cocaine smugglers.
oBXN7 TIL “Stopped” was the last word of British surgeon & anatomist, Joseph Henry Green (1791 - 1863), while feeling his own pulse.
9YrJ7 TIL that, once the Civil War began, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's plantation outside Washington DC was repurposed by the Lincoln administration to house a camp for escaped slaves. It contained a school, hospital, and cemetery, and it is now the site of Arlington National Cemetery.
Lk8nP TIL: for the Platypus there is no universally agreed plural term in English. Platypodes conforms with the greek origin word platupous meaning "flat footed", while Platypi, Platypusses, or Platypus for both singular & plural, are also used.
a8VmJ TIL The most heavily bombed country in history is Laos. The US dropped 260 million bombs on a neutral country, Laos, in attempt to disrupt Vietnamese supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. An estimated one-third (80 million) of the bombs have net detonated and are still at risk to do so.