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TIL: George Washington was worth $525 million in his day (adjusted for inflation)

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xVEJg TIL Christian Heinrich Heineken "the infant scholar of Lübeck" could speak fluent German at 10 months old. He read the Pentateuch at age one, and read the entire Bible in Latin by age three. Later that year he recited his own History of Denmark when visiting the King of Denmark. He died at age four.
e0o7k TIL: in 1983 a massive landslide in Utah dammed the Spanish Fork river, creating "Thistle Lake" and flooding the town of Thistle, UT under about 200 feet of water. The town had to be evacuated and is a ghost town today.
loOYK TIL in 1988 the final history exams for more than 53 million Soviet schoolchildren were cancelled because much of the history they had been taught were lies.
0AoR TIL scientists revived 400-year-old frozen mosses recovered from melting glaciers in Canadian Arctic
QKpL TIL after the popularity of Steve Earle’s song “Copperhead Road,” the actual Copperhead Road in Mountain City, TN was changed to “Copperhead Hollow Rd” after people kept stealing road signs bearing the song’s title.