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TIL about the Molly Maguires

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ekPb TIL in the middle of the Savannah International Airport lies a 200 year old grave in the runway, marked because the family was reluctant to move the graves to another location while the airport was urgently built to use for bombers during WW2.
lRKV TIL Jim Carey was so terrible at basketball during the filming of Cable Guy that he could barely dribble, so he mimed basketball actions and a ball was added in post production.
xpDb TIL Mr. Roger’s parents adopted an African American teenager named George. Rogers came to consider George his older brother, and George later became an instructor for the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II– and also taught Rogers how to fly.
l7lkB TIL that by 400 BC, Persians had developed Yakhchal, Ancient Refrigerators capable of storing solid ice in the summer in the desert
bN1a TIL Albuterol, one of the oldest asthma medicines, typically costs $50 to $100 per inhaler in the United States, but it was less than $15 a decade ago, before it was repatented