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TIL in 1909, the citizens of Ulysses, Kansas, moved their whole city (including buildings) to evade exorbitant property taxes.

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8eGrG TIL Plymouth Rock, where the Pilgrims allegedly landed the Mayflower in the USA in 1620, is literally just a rock, not a cliff or mountain or island or something.
G7P5 TIL that during the Black Death, many people in Florence participated in orgies and got heavily drunk thinking that it would kill of the disease.
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