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TIL the first ever aerial photograph of an American city is of Boston in 1860. The photo, made from a hot air balloon, is titled: “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It”

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0dZnp TIL Tiramisu was invented as a "pick me up" for men who went to Italian brothels so they would have energy to sleep with their wives afterwards.
8R1L TIL if the mostly unknown 10th President of the USA-John Tyler, hadn’t implemented the Monroe Doctrine, Hawaii would be a British colony today
RYr6 TIL in 2012, a neon light was discovered behind a bathroom wall in a Los Angeles restaurant, which had been left on for 77 years, amounting to over $17,000 in electric bills
Kr06 TIL a 54-yo man was riding a train in Essex when 6 women emerged from a toilet and attacked him, punching and kicking him out onto a platform where he fell on another woman who accused him of trying to steal her bag and punched him in the face. There was no explanation for the attack.
epaOD TIL the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, 40 km southeast of Inukjuak, Quebec, contained fossils that have been dated to 4,388 million years ago. If this is confirmed, it would make these microorganisms the oldest lifeform on Earth. The Earth is estimated to have formed 4.54 billion years ago.