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TIL Quarantine was first invented in Venice.
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TIL If the world's wealth were divided evenly among its population, we'd have about $50K each (using 2014 figures).
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TIL there exists a mysterious fruit-tree species in Arkansas discovered by science in 1990, who is only the second of its kind, with its closest relative being in Europe. It exists only in a 22 acre area, there are only 25 trees left of its kind and no one knows where it came from.
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TIL: That after a plane crash that wiped out almost the entire Russian National Hockey team in 1950, Stalin's son feared his fathers reaction and recruited new team in one day and his father did not even notice
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TIL sheep, goats, llamas, and donkeys graze the O’Hare Airport property each season
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TIL that German architect Herman Sörgel had a plan to build an enormous dam across the Strait of Gibraltar to lower the sea level of the Mediterranean Sea by up to 200 m to colonize new territories and produce huge amounts of hydroelectricity.