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TIL Swordswoman and opera signer Julie d'Aubigny seduced a women who was then placed in a convent by her parents. Julie joined the convent, helped the women place a dead nun in her bed, set fire to the place, and escaped with her.

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vPRQR TIL On Sept 1st 1857 New York had a parade to celebrate the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project took four years to complete and the line failed later that month. It was not until 1866 when communications reopened after the third line was laid (the second line snapped at sea).
neQmo TIL That in 1978, a group of 18 farmers from Xiaogang Village in Anhui Province, China, secretly agreed to abandon collectivism and adopt private property rights by subdividing their collective farm. The change resulted in a harvest larger than the previous five years combined.
N7pXN TIL: A study by Microsoft and Canada revealed in 2015 that the average attention span is now 8 seconds, down from 12 seconds in 2000 due to the advent of mobile phones. The attention span of a goldfish is 9 seconds.
R7owQ TIL that the creator of Pringles Can is buried inside one. He died in 2008 and after cremated, his ashes were put inside an original flavored Pringles Can.
yVd8M TIL that in 1934 a board game called Toward Soviet America was the opposite of Monopoly. The goal was to get rid of the rich and powerful, end oppression, and seize the means of production. The game did not catch on.