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TIL that in London, the newly-opened Underground line in the 1860s brought spectators to public hangings at Newgate Prison

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mxwox TIL: A master player of the Chinese strategy game Go has decided to retire, due to the rise of artificial intelligence that "cannot be defeated".
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JPlQ TIL The price of entry to a zoo in 18th century England was a cat or a dog - They were fed to the lions.
VBBWB TIL About the Wowowee stampede that killed 73 people and injured 400 when a game show employee announced that only the first 300 people out of the 30,000 that showed up would get tickets the the popular Filipino game show Wowowee.
R76g1 TIL that back on June 3rd 1980 a computer chip costing 46 cents malfunctioned and almost started World War III.