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TIL Philadelphia literally burns old money for electricity

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Z8vJR TIL: March 30th is National Doctor's Day in the USA
VM5dk TIL there's a type of keyboard, called a "chorded keyboard", that uses only eight or fewer keys.
X0ARD TIL German Submarine U-505 was secretly captured by the US Navy on 4 June 1944 by Task Group 22.3. The crew attempted to scuttle it & a US 8-man boarding party rushed inside and were able to keep it afloat to be towed 3,150 km back to Bermuda. Capture of the ship was kept secret until after the war.
69PxZ TIL that Oliver Cromwell demanded that the painter Peter Lely should depict him exactly as he was without flattering airbrushing, warts and all.
PPBE TIL due to the additional weight of the added lifeboats after the Titanic disaster, the already unstable Eastland capsized in port killing 844 people.