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TIL Rick Astley has made only $12 from Rickrolling

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0yJN TIL George Washington died when his doctors tried to cure his epiglottitis (i.e. inflamed throat) with blood letting. He lost more than half his blood before they stopped the treatment, and died just hours later.
kJrnW TIL a study has shown participants who started consuming kiwis regularly before bed were able to fall asleep 42% faster than they did before.
b9dJE TIL of the world's richest woman, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers. She owns a 33% stake in L'Oreal which was founded by her grandfather, Eugène Schueller, a known fascist and Nazi sympathizer. Françoise married and has raised her children Jewish.
BBLL TIL Ancient Egyptians are credited with having the first idea of air condition, where they hung reeds from windows, and moistened them with trickling water. The evaporation of the water brought cool air in through the window.
QlXk TIL: Unclaimed dead in NYC are buried in a mass grave on an island run by the Dept. of Corrections and staffed by convicts; Over 50,000 bodies are buried there and the press isn’t allowed to enter.