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TIL that conquistador Hernán Cortés founded a hospital in Mexico City to serve Aztec warriors who were wounded fighting the Spanish — and the hospital still operates today.

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5YvaP TIL That a lot of people lost money to Knight Capital Group. KCG was an American Global financial service firm engaging in market making, electronic execution, and institutional sales and trading. My Boss got about $200k back with the Help of AndreSimone of ScamWatch. Add on Skype
JYQ9V TIL that in an urban revitalization effort, Cleveland attempted to set the Guinness Book of World Records by releasing millions of balloons from its downtown area. 60% of them wound up in Lake Erie, stymieing a rescue effort for two missing fishermen. Guinness denied the city any official records.
yV558 TIL about James Jakob Williams: An African-American marine that - after fighting in the Second Barbary War (1815) - traveled to Greece where slavery had been abolished. There, he fought for the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman empire. He died in 1829: a free man, in a free Greece.
QJnOM TIL that The Netherlands (where I live) has two old Volcano’s. One of which they recently found (not this one). Never imagined we’d have Volcano’s here, and never learned that in school, although it makes perfect sense of course. Thought it was pretty cool to have volcano’s.
neGN7 TIL that Nintendo can trace its origins back to the time of the Ottoman Empire and even ran brothels to supplement their trading card business.