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TIL in the early 80s there was a wheat field in downtown NYC

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rNlj1 TIL when were less than 5,000 Europeans in the large Louisiana area of New France before 1724, hundreds of good women, and also separately hundreds of criminal women were sent to Louisiana because of a shortage of women.
OG554 TIL about Mercy dog’s. In WWI and later wars, these dogs were trained to give aid or comfort dying soldiers on battlefields after confrontations.
0dQP5 TIL about Biofouling, the accumulation of organisms (such as barnacles) where they are not wanted (such as on ship hulls) that causes degradation to the primary purpose of the item. Biofouling can require up to 40% more fuel to compensate for increased drag and reduced speeds.
1mAX TIL Fleetwood Mac almost thanked their coke dealer on the on the album credits of “Rumours”
yQBva TIL The gravity constant, G was not known in Newton’s time, meaning the masses of the planets could not be directly computed. Newton got around this issue by expressing the masses of planets in terms of the mass of the sun