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TIL the British East India Company arrested hundreds of local weavers and had their thumbs chopped off in order to destroy Begal’s weaving industry in 1834.

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Y74ex TIL the location where Stanford University is standing was a private country estate owned by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate.
8jab TIL that until 1999, the State of Montana didn’t have a speed limit on the interstate, and instead encouraged drivers to be “reasonable and prudent”
oBar7 TIL that there are support houses in Tijuana and Mexico for the U.S. veterans who have been deported. One such support house has tracked at least of 400 deported veterans
4kvj5 TIL in 1609, Manhattan supported more ecological diversity per acre than Yellowstone National Park. Research suggests that had Manhattan never been developed, it would be one of the most important national parks
LknXr TIL the average Philadelphian consumes twelve times as many pretzels as the national average