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TIL the 9th president of the USA William Henry Harrison, contracted and subsequently died of pneumonia after performing A exhausting 8,445 word speech in subzero conditions with no coat or gloves for warmth.

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9YKJQ TIL that "A Fistful of Dollars", the first of the Man with no Name trilogy, was an unlicensed remake of Akira Kurasawa's film "Yojimbo". Kurasawa filed a lawsuit, then settled with Sergio Leone out of court with 15% of international receipts and over $100,000.
oQ6R TIL of the North American X-15, a rocket plane from the 1950’s that achieved the manned airspeed record in 1967 when William J. “Pete” Knight flew it 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h).
awegL TIL In 1940 40 Wall street was worth less than its elevators had cost. The structure as a whole was worth $1.25 million, less than the 43 elevators in the building.40 Wall Street had opened following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and so suffered from lack of tenants.
vnvx TIL that electric cars and cabs were quite common in 1909, had a range of over 100 miles, had charging stations every few blocks in NY, were quite popular with women, and people would wait for an electric cab instead of taking a gasoline cab
Lk4Dd TIL that killing a tyrant was legal in classical Greece and was called Tyrannicide