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TIL in 1869 there was a movement to make St. Louis, MO the nation's capital.

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vMK7 TIL after selling Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, game creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson bought a $70 million 8-bedroom, 15-bath mansion in Beverly Hills, the most expensive house in the city’s history. He also outbid Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who were also looking to buy the house.
5Y4l8 TIL 'A Different World' was a spin-off of 'The Cosby Show'. The third season finale of 'The Cosby Show', titled "Hillman", was basically a pilot episode for 'A Different World'.
e0gxg TIL that the Berber people of North Africa and the Sami people of northern Scandinavia share a close mitochondrial DNA link. Researchers found that the two groups diverged about 9000 years ago, just after the last ice age.
VK14 TIL that taking into account all the conflict related deaths since 2007, the Arab-Israeli conflict has had less than 55,000 deaths from all sides combined since 1950. Making it one of the longest and least deadliest ongoing conflicts in human history.
vPpY7 TIL sharks existed before trees