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TIL that Ida Wood wife of the owner of the New York Daily News in the early 1900's was a recluse at the Herald Square Hotel for decades & paid all her bills in cash & never let anyone in until the day her sister died. That's when people found out she was VERY wealthy & wasn't who she said she was.

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GAoY4 TIL that Mary Celeste, the infamous ghost ship, was later sunk by its new owner in an insurance fraud attempt.
epA9J TIL: Indians used to burn widows till the British colonized them.
BgWxb TIL in 1951, a Nazi soldier was found alive after being trapped in a bunker in Poland since before WW2 ended in 1945. Six soldiers were trapped, two died by suicide, two died from unknown causes, and another died from a heart attack after being found
VMwOD TIL, when creating a forever stamp of the Statue of Liberty, the US Postal Service accidentally used a stock photo of the replica from Las Vegas's New York, New York, instead of a picture of the real one. When the mistake was discovered, they said they would have used that picture anyway.
gMYjy TIL that veggie straws are actually worse for you than most potato chips on the market.