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TIL The canaries sent down into mines to detect gas weren't sacrificed but placed in a device to revive them when they succumbed to the dangerous gases.

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1aKMW TIL In 1161 the Bishop of Winchester was the largest brothel owner in the UK and his prostitutes were called the Winchester Geese.
P1p7Z TIL that, Nominated 49 times for the Nobel Prize without ever winning it, Lise Meitner, co-discoverer of nuclear fission, also discovered the Matilda effect.
nexNb TIL all wild Venus Flytraps live within a 75-mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Z8G0R TIL Riley Keough is Elvis Presley’s granddaughter and was Michael Jackson’s stepdaughter. She admitted that she doesn’t "think about it, ever" and she sold a Disney watch Michael Jackson gave her
L9Pm TIL Paul Van Riper gained notoriety after the Millennium Challenge 2002 wargame where he easily sank a whole US carrier battle group in the simulation with an inferior Middle-Eastern “red” team in the first two days.