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TIL Britain’s oldest prostitute is 85-years-old and still raking in £250 an hour

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N6WN TIL keeping bedroom doors shut at night can save your life in the event of a fire. A shut door will keep out smoke and flames for 20 minutes longer than an open door.
R5oB7 TIL about San Miguel de Gualdape, a short-lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 somewhere in modern South Carolina or Georgia. The location had the first enslaved Africans in the modern United States, and also the first slave revolt. The fates of the Africans is lost to history.
N7k58 TIL of Poto and Cabengo, aka Grace and Virginia Kennedy, a pair of twins who were so socially distanced and ignored by their parents that they developed their own unique language that only they understood.
awA90 TIL that Black Death pandemic spread in Eurasia when after a protracted siege, during which the Mongol army under Jani Beg was suffering the disease, catapulted the infected corpses over the city walls to infect the inhabitants, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people.
5DE9 TIL a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Lituya Bay caused a rockslide which created a megatsunami 1,720 feet tall, the tallest wave in recorded history.