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TIL of Bridget Cleary, an Irish woman who was burned to death by her husband on suspicion of her being a fairy changeling

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4XBg5 TIL: The last living person born in the 1800s died in 2017. When she was born, the last living person from the 1700s was still alive. In other words, we all lived alongside someone who lived alongside someone who was born when George Washington was president.
b9mka TIL that Duct Tape was originally called Duck Tape. In WWII, Johnson & Johnson created a waterproof rubber adhesive tape applied to a durable duck cloth backing for use as waterproof sealing tape on ammunition cases: "Duck Tape". Later it was used to seal air ducts in forced-air heating HVAC systems
PkvZ TIL there is a tiny British colony in the Pacific with so many pedophiles that the no one under the age of 16 can go there without prior authorization
W7Zv8 TIL in 2006 Iran banned sale of The Economist magazine because it published a map labelling the Persian Gulf simply as Gulf
mxN7P TIL of 'The World's Loneliest Man' who is a man from Brazil who has never been contacted by the outside world and who's remaining members of the tribe were massacred in the mid '90's.