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TIL the fork came to Italy before any other European country because of pasta

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78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.
jN99a TIL the civil war era Fort Montgomery, near the New York/Canada border, is a privately-held 86 acre estate that has been on the market for decades. Peak asking price was $9 MIL in 2006 but the current listing is under $1MIL.
abp9 TIL that the average age of the NASA engineers who put humans on the Moon was 28 years old. This means many of them were teenagers when Kennedy challenged America to go to the Moon.
dXZj TIL in 2013, Mattel will produce a Barbie that is bald in support of children who have cancer and lose their hair in treatment.
D1KxV TIL in 1974, a couple disappeared along with their yacht from the uninhabited Palmyra Atoll while vacationing. Theyd feuded with a man on the island, whose boat was not seaworthy and was out of supplies. 7 years later, the wife's body washed ashore Palmyra, and the man was convicted of her murder.