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TIL that there’s a species of jellyfish which can be immortal at the right circumstances

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MeyXA TIL women and non-whites had the right to vote in New Jersey between 1776 and 1807 as the state constitution made no specifications of race or gender requirements, simply stating that "all inhabitants" with at least £50 could vote.
l79La TIL about America's first Olympics in 1904 where, during the marathon athletes drank poison, dodged traffic, stole peaches and hitchiked!
woGeM TIL that the earliest known published collection of liturgical music in Hebrew was published exactly 400 years ago, in 1623, by Salamone Rossi, a Jewish musician at the court of Mantua, Italy, who was so well-thought of that he was excused from wearing the yellow badge required of Jews
EgDyx TIL that in 2013, Chinese doctors have saved a man's severed hand by grafting it to his ankle
D1B6j TIL NYC’s first public WiFi kiosks had to shut off browser access because so many people were using them to watch porn.