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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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O9JY TIL: After the financial crises of 2008, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five non-political citizens to write a new constitution to free Iceland from the exaggerated power of international finance. The Icelanders could witness and comment on the constitution as it was being drafted online.
awdk0 TIL a 2000 Japanese study suggested that “moderate drinking” could actually boost a person’s IQ.
gM9XD TIL the Germans put a weather station in North America in 1943 during World War 2 and no one noticed until 1977.
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