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TIL that New Yorkers have a bad history with quarantine, a mob burning the first quarantine hospital to the ground

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kJ7oW TIL Alec Guinness was the same age playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars as was Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the Force Awakens
yV7Gl TIL in 1876, Texas set aside vast tracts of land for the state university system. At the time the land was considered to be worthless but was later found to contain oil. As of 2015 the fund is worth $17 billion.
kYNe TIL when Saladin died, he only had 1 piece of gold and 47 pieces of silver left because he gave so much to the poor.
ne467 TIL the popular arcade game NBA Jam was thought to be haunted. During demo mode, the machines would randomly shout “Petrovic”, the name of an NBA player who died in a car accident shortly after the game finished production.
Z8lmv TIL it is said that René Descartes René constructed an automaton in his daughter's likeness after she died of scarlet fever; only to have the robot Francine smashed and thrown overboard as a work of Satan during a voyage at sea.