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TIL of Baggins Syndrome The mix of nostalgic longing for a home that no longer exists the way you remember, combined with the fact that seeing the world changes your perspective of the world.

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M7K47 TIL "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" was first published 200 years ago (December 23, 1823) in a Troy, New York newspaper
rNwe1 TIL Richard Nixon is the only President to forgo his life-long secret service protection in order to save the taxpayers money.
jDxp TIL of Antihydrogen, a material valued at 90 trillion dollars per gram, making it the most expensive material in the world.
6o8X TIL that China has a giant ghost town, Tianducheng, built to be a near-exact Replica of Paris complete with a mock-up of Versailles and a copy of The Eiffel Tower. Now only 2,000 people live there.
vP4KB Til Irving Berlin's first wife contracted typhoid fever on their honeymoon in Havana. She died 5 months later. He eventually remarried and was married for 62 years until his second wife's death.