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TIL about the Molly Maguires

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8app4 TIL that in this picture taken 3 years ago, the combined net worth of these internet/tech executives were worth $200B. Today, just the two people at the front ends (Mark Zuckerberg & Jeff Bezos) are combined worth over $220B.
p81rA TIL that Julius Caesar's last words were not "Et tu, Brutus?" but instead "Kai su, teknon?" meaning "You too, child?" in ancient Greek.
wo8Do TIL that TON 618, 18.2 billion light years from Earth, is one of the largest black holes in the universe. The gas cloud that surrounds it has a diameter of at least 100 kiloparsecs(330,000 light-years), twice the size of the Milky Way.
OX57 TIL that Japanese bathrooms have a button that plays the flushing sound to mask the sound of your own business.
mxlaE TIL that Australian Funnel-Web Spiders, one of the most dangerous species of spiders, can survive underwater up to 24-30 hours