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TIL that the Royal Society invested so heavily in the publication of The History of Fish that it almost went bankrupt and couldn't fund the publication of Isaac Newton's groundbreaking work Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.

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NKEJ TIL in 1898 Andrew Carnegie offered President McKinley $20 million to free the Philippines instead of annexation. The US paid Spain $20 million to annex the Philippines at the end of the Spanish-American war, sparking the Philippine-American war that cost at least 200,000 Filipino civilian lives.
V7GD TIL Mike Kurtz, an american burglar, found out that eating common soap could produce the effect of ill health. His sudden and unexplainable weight loss and other symptoms baffled the prison doctors and he was able to fool officials that he was dying and received a pardon.
XEByX TIL The most popular climate denying site, 'Wattsupwiththat', actually helped scientists document weather station data, only the end results were, of course, reverse of what they thought
woVpP TIL about the 1936 presidential election in which Roosevelt received 98.49% of the electoral vote total, which remains the highest percentage of the electoral vote won by any candidate since 1820.
6vPw TIL : That For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.