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ENYX TIL William Beckford, at age 10, inherited a fortune and spent it on sailing the world with a cook, two dogs, 24 musicians, and a Spanish Dwarf.
69M9l TIL the Celilo Falls on the Colombia River was one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in North America and a major fishing and trading hub for many Native American tribes. In 1957, the newly-built Dalles Dam submerged the falls along with many settlements which had to be relocated.
wLyk1 TIL in April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled. The incident has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history." The heist was planned and carried out by elderly men.
jNV7M TIL of the Wave of Death. When drivers inadvertently wave pedestrians into harm's way when forgoing their right of way out of politeness.
joan TIL that carrots were normally a variety of colors (rainbow carrots) until the Dutch began selectively breeding only orange carrots in the 1600s- to honor the Prince of Orange.