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TIL that the wheel has been around for more than 5000 years

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jN76Q TIL of the once upper class Black community of Sugar Hill, Jacksonville, Florida. Chosen by city officials to be levelled - to build a multi-lane expressway through it during the 1950s and '60s - the community, once known for its elegance, sits devastated, largely boarded up and overgrown today.
Z8DKB TIL Isaac Newton became a member of Parliament but only spoke once, telling someone to close the window.
9wM5M TIL Queen Elizabeth II and her husband were third cousins, both descended from Queen Victoria
P1KDn TIL That the chair has been around for nearly 5000 years. The earliest example in the form of a sculpture from the Greek Cycladic Islands at approximately 2700 BC which was prior to Egyptian chairs, which were typically stools. Chairs with arms and backrests implied elite status.
aGN TIL Howard Tracy Hall created the first synthetic diamond in the ‘50s. He worked for GE, who made a fortune off his work. They rewarded him with a $10 bond.