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TIL It is estimated that 300,000 children were abducted by the Franco regime in Spain

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ABQw TIL Scientists once had a favorite curb in Hayward, CA. They studied the curb because it lay on the Hayward fault line & was being pulled apart each year. This evidence of Earth’s shifting plates was observed from the 1970s till 2016 when the city decided to fix the sidewalk & unknowingly ruined it
LQkv TIL descendants of the 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of the famous dish, run a sandwich shop
d8Ed7 TIL: Pirates were generally considered by the English government to be reserve naval forces, and were sometimes given active encouragement such as knighthoods. Royal pardons were regularly issued and the public's opinion of pirates was often favorable, some considering them akin to patrons.
8epvV TIL that Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the Phonautograph, the earliest known device for recording sound and patented it on March 4th 1857, a full 20 years before Thomas Edison created the Phonograph.
NXar6 TIL: Jordy Lemoine holds the Guinness record for the youngest person to have #1 single, with the song "Dur dur d'être bébé!" He was 4 years old.