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TIL: One of the first inductees in the Poker Hall of Fame died 60 years before Poker was invented

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gr9Q7 TIL about the Hoover Dam Tragedy. The project's first recorded fatality was surveyor J.G. Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1922, while searching for an ideal dam site. Thirteen years to the day, on December 20, 1935, the last man to die during construction was Tierney's son, Patrick W. Tierney.
VMNvB TIL the capital of Tajikistan is named Dushanbe, which literally translates to “Monday.” It was also briefly named Stalinabad (“Stalin’s Paradise”) during the reign of the USSR.
kONwm TIL that the Medici Family build a elevated walkway in Florence in 1565 just to avoid contact with the common people. They even connected it to their private lodge at the Felicica Church and moved the Ponte Vecchio meat market to avoid the smells.
l77g1 TIL Romanian prisoners would receive reduced sentences if they wrote a book.
o9L TIL that the Brazilian passport is the most sought after passport in the black market due to the ethnic and culturally mixed make-up of Brazilian society.