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TIL that the deadliest fire in US history was largely forgotten about, because it took place the same night as the Great Chicago Fire.

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nZRo TIL that a man in NJ was charged $3750 for a bottle of wine, ordering it after a waitress told him that it was “thirty seven fifty”.
x8YD TIL that all domestic hamsters are descendants of a single brother-sister pair that was bred in 1930.
X069k TIL the allowable FDA limits of maggots, larvae, insect parts, rodent hairs, excrement, and other “filth” in food items
vP8VK TIL, On July 26, 1978, the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in Oldham, England
94W7 TIL in 1996 a plane carrying 163 passengers was hijacked, the pilot, Leul Abate, who had been in two previous hijackings, made the only true water landing of a widebody airliner with survivors, whilst the first officer, Yonas Mekuria, was fighting with the hijackers. Also, the landing is on tape.