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TIL Canada's original gothic Parliament Building, including the Victoria Tower, was destroyed by fire in 1916. Only the Library survived intact, by an employee who closed the iron doors connecting the Library to the rest of the building

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X0kj8 TIL that, prior to the arrival of the Mayflower, a thriving Patuxet village existed on the Massachusetts coast. An endemic wiped out 90 percent of the population, and the pilgrims converted the abandoned settlement into Plymouth Colony.
D1bgr TIL Tsar Nicholas II had a very fit body according to pictures taken in 1912 that show him swimming nude during a trip to Finland.
wLLgJ TIL that nearly all citrus fruits are hybrids of four original species
oaor TIL texting is considered to be closer to speaking (“finger speaking”) than it is to writing; it has many hallmarks of an evolving language in its own right with a unique grammar and dialect. Rather than hurting people’s writing skills, texting may provide bidialectical benefits to the brain.
7jDX TIL about the Fokkens twins, Amsterdam’s 70 year old prostitute sisters who decided to retire after over 50 years of “service” and 355,000 men between them.