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TIL there was a halfpenny

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69PlJ TIL as of 2016, 40 percent of the 2,753 who died during the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks still have not been identified.
BrARd TIL that Halloween, as it’s celebrated in modern times in the United States, is a result of intermingled traditions from immigrants based on Samhain, Pomona Day, and Day of the Dead.
jL8N TIL There is a infant herpes outbreak in NYC, due to the Orthodox Jewish tradition known as oral suction circumcision
d81vE TIL that Ants live more than a year, breaking my conception of them not living more than month's.
j6JWR TIL the first full size electric locomotive was built in 1842, powered by zinc-acid batteries and travelled at 4mph