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TIL in 1998, a preservation group began restoring Ben Franklin’s residence in London. During their rehabilitation work, they discovered a secret, windowless room under his garden containing the remains of 15 people.

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VpD TIL we could cure world hunger with just 30 billion dollars per year.
6EGdm TIL of the Plum Island Pink House. The wife in a divorcing couple forced her ex-husband to build a replica of their family home as part of the divorce settlement. She didn’t specify the location, so he built it in the middle of a salt marsh and plumbed it solely with salt water. It’s uninhabitable.
007L TIL George Lucas stated Sean Connery’s portrayal of James Bond was one of the primary inspirations for Indiana Jones, a reason Connery was chosen for the role of Indiana’s father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
mV0M TIL the brother of Star Wars actor, Ewan McGregor is a pilot of the British RAF, and goes by the call-sign ‘Obi Two’.
1By4 TIL that Tulsa OK used have a “Black Wall Street” that was once the most economically prosperous black community in America. The community’s wealth was greater than that of surrounding white neighborhoods and was destroyed by envious whites on June 1, 1921 in just 12 hours during a race riot.