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TIL the United States fought two wars in the 19th century in part to stop the enslavement of American Sailors

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RPy7 TIL in 1809, a woman diagnosed with an ovarian tumor rode 60 miles on horseback to see a surgeon who was willing to extract it. It had never been done before out of fear it would kill the patient. After the 22.5 pound tumor was removed from her body without anesthesia, she lived another 32 years.
K15a TIL that in the early 1800s the British spent many hundred of thousands of pounds bribing countries to stop the slave trade
Lor0 TIL that the Queen of England’s portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging.
QNEpa TIL Christopher Walken’s SNL character, “The Continental” is a parody of a real program of the same name starring Italian actor Renzo Cesana, and aired on CBS in 1952
GA5w7 TIL of a disgruntled designer for SimCopter (1996) that created an Easter Egg that would spawn "shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other" in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. But the RNG he created for it malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently