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TIL London is home to more than 10,000 foxes and most residents like having them around.

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v1Xb8 TIL The “Wrong Table Ring in Wine Proposal” featured in season 2 of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ in which the ring belonged to an extra, was a REAL proposal unknown to his girlfriend.
epW9b TIL that The Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands was an joint stock association, incorporated in 1553. It led to the commencement of English trade with Russia, Persia and elsewhere, and became known as the Muscovy Company
6NjW TIL Jonas Salk, a Polio researcher, chose not to patent his vaccine; instead, he gave it away for free, saving millions from the paralyzing, often lethal disease.
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aWeZ TIL in 1993 James Scott from Missouri purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi river to delay his wife coming home from work so he could party. Instead the river flooded 14,000 acres. He was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.