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TIL scientists have found brain tissue from AD 79 preserved as glass

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loZ4a TIL that the first free black community in the New World, Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, was created by the Spanish government of St Augustine, Florida, in 1738. They began to offer asylum as early as 1687 to slaves of the British colonies, and often fought the British alongside each other.
b6mRE TIL, there was a suggestion to resettle displaced Palestinians in Chile and Argentina.
J1bJB TIL grain buyers are not required to issue 1099s to farmers for most sales.
wLxbW TIL NBA player Ricky Davis received the nickname "Wrong Rim Ricky" in Cleveland. Davis was one rebound short of a triple double, when he deliberately tossed an inbound pass off his own rim & caught it in attempt to receive credit for a rebound, but shots taken at one's own basket do not count
jNZyp TIL the former columns of the U.S. Capitol building still stand, now in the U.S. Arboretum in NE D.C.