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TIL in 1799 a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina & used it as a doorstop. It was gold.

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5VWv8 TIL in 1983 a 23 year old UK woman died after eating what is still considered the largest meal ever consumed. She ate 19 lbs of food in about 4 hours
wowKP TIL D.D. Palmer, who performed the first chiropractic adjustment in 1895, credited the ghost of a long-dead doctor with introducing him to the healing practice.
ZYDv TIL in May 2009, Leonardo DiCaprio, along with Kate Winslet and director James Cameron, publicly pledged to support the financial future of the last living Titanic survivor, Millvina Dean, after it was reported that she had been forced to sell her mementos to pay for nursing home bills.
XEaRX TIL that New Zealand was undiscovered and completely devoid of human beings no more than 800 years ago.
ep4DL TIL about early ‘competitive eater’ and local Kent celebrity Nicholas Wood, whose stunts were reported in 1630 to include eating a whole sheep raw in one sitting (including the wool, horns, and bones), 7 dozen rabbits in one meal, and 400 pigeons in another