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TIL that some San Francisco streets are named after Gold Rush-era prostitutes

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VwP8 TIL that there are more overweight people than starving people in the world
BgQlW TIL that actor Nicholas Galitzine, who plays Prince Charming in Cinderella and Prince Henry in Red, White and Royal Blue, is the son of an actual prince (Prince Geoffrey Galitzine of the House of Golitsyn)
16JK7 TIL for 50+ years, Australian children in the outback attended school via shortwave radio and sent homework via air mail due to the distance between homes. "Schools of the Air" were many children's first social experience outside their families; its quality equaled or surpassed traditional schools'.
EWNo TIL: of Willem Arondeus, a Homosexual Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who bombed the Amsterdam Public Records Office to hinder the Nazi identification of Jews. He was arrested & executed. His last words were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”
R7emj TIL in 2000 an anonymous businessman offered then 18-year-old Britney Spears £7.5M for her virginity. She rejected the offer.