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TIL Saint Valentine's Keys are given to offer a cure for epilepsy on Saint Valentine's Day

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m1Z7P TIL about the Cottingley Fairies, a hoax made by 2 young girls, that claimed to have photographed fairies in their back yard. They managed to fool Arthur Conan Doyle with this hoax.
n5Wd TIL That so many Purple Hearts were made in anticipation of the invasion of Japan that every Purple Heart since World War II has come from that stock.
nZwd TIL, the Civil War prison camp Elmira had two observation towers constructed for onlookers. Citizens paid 15 cents to look at the inmates. Concession stands by the towers sold peanuts, cakes, and lemonade while the men inside starved
9wMm7 TIL There’s An Expansive Salt Mine Under Lake Erie
9wWJB TIL Theologian and paleontology pioneer William Buckland conducted the first ever reconstructions of prehistoric food chains by studying fossilised feces. Through observation alone he figured out the diet habits and anatomy of species like the ichthyosaur