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TIL Wig theft was a problem in 18th Century England, with thieves using children, dogs, and monkeys to snatch the expensive wigs of wealthy people on the street.

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X0AxD TIL it is estimated that an adult megalodon shark could yield up to 70,456 bowls of shark fin soup.
Y7x7Z TIL that FDR led an insurgency against NY's Tammany Hall machine when he became state senator in 1910, costing him the US Senate primary in 1914. Only after he became NY Governor in 1928 could he bring corruption investigations, ending Tammany's more than a century of control over the NY Dem Party.
Z6pp TIL Google will fight to keep sites like The Pirate Bay available in the USA.
698 TIL that in the 1960s a Russian doctor had to remove his own appendix after it burst because he was the only doctor stationed in a remote antarctic facility with no option for evacuation. He lived to tell the tale.
VMR94 TIL in 2007, Russia used a mini-submarine to plant the country's flag on the floor of the Arctic Ocean in an attempt to claim the region and its natural resources, a move that was rejected by the U.N.