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TIL about Inaccessible Island, an island that is incredibly hard to get to. Normally you can only get to it a few days a year. Very harsh waters and bad airstreams make it difficult for boat or aircraft.

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yQl18 TIL Bill The Butcher (Gangs of NY) was head of the Bowery Boys gang who's territory was Bowery street today. Mostly made up of firefighters literally fighting other gangs to have control over putting out fires. Fights between gangs would often break out and the fires were sometimes never put out.
nVmb TIL that the first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman
9KJX TIL that it takes us less than 2 minutes today to take as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s.
ynYe TIL that in the Battle of Asal Uttar (1965 Indo-Pakistan war), the Indian army let the Pakistan army think they had retreated, and then flooded the sugarcane fields they camping in overnight, causing the Pakistan tanks sink into the mud. The Pakistan army lost 100 tanks against India’s 10.
oRmvo TIL that on December 18,1983 when the NFL’s Baltimore Colts played their final game in Baltimore before relocating to Indianapolis (which they won 20-10 over the Houston Oilers) The visiting QB was Oliver Luck, whose son Andrew was taken number 1 overall by the Colts nearly 30 years later in 2012.