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TIL that when early humans transitioned from hunter gathering to agriculture, it actually lowered their standards of living.

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bmb4 TIL During Great Famine, Ottoman Sultan Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I declared his intention to send £10,000 (£800,000 today) to Irish farmers but Queen Victoria requested that the Sultan send only £1,000 because she had sent only £2,000 herself.
PL1G TIL there was a woman named Edith Macefeild who would not sell her house to make way for a commercial development project in Seattle. When she died, she willed the house to the leader of the construction project “in gratitude for the friendship he had shown her during the construction.”
QNXl9 TIL that Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to be subjected to both a physical assault and an assassination attempt. In 1833, Robert B. Randolph struck Jackson in the face with his hand, and in 1835, Richard Lawrence pulled two pistols on Jackson, both of which misfired.
loxDV TIL that, despite the reputation of black cats, a black cat named Luna saved her human family from a house fire.The house burned down to the ground, but not before Luna woke her owner in time by pawing and biting her feet. Once awake, Emily Chappell-Root evacuated her family from the blaze.
yVkMV TIL that the LIBOR scandal was a global financial scandal in which several banks were found to have manipulated the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate used as a reference for over $350 trillion dollars in financial contracts.