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TIL Russia firstly offered Alaska to Liechtenstein before they offered it to the US

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e01l5 TIL of the Pazzi conspiracy, an attempt by the Pazzi family to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici and his brother Giuliano and displace the Medici family as the rulers of renaissance era Florence. Lorenzo survived the plot and the way he dealt with it led to greater public support for the Medici regime.
R7LJ6 TIL NFL players swap jerseys with members of opposing teams as a show of respect, if they attended the same school, or previously played together. Teams retain several seamstresses to tailor fit players, taking 10 hours a jersey.
1VkX TIL that work on the first commercial home video game console began in 1966. There was a working prototype completed by 1968, and it was released in 1972 as the Magnavox Odyssey.
abjo TIL that there is a tree in the USA that owns itself, or more accurately its the son of the tree that owns itself
OG8v4 TIL in 18th Century Japan, a woman farting in public was considered so embarrassing that it could break off an engagement. Some women would employ a Heoi-bikuni (fart carrying nun) to accompany them everywhere, whose job was to take the blame for their farts.