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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.

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1aYPd TIL that Placenta is a flat cake from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey. It is flavoured with bay leaves, baked and then covered in honey. The temporary fœtal organ was named after this cake thanks to its flat round shape.
DQLxg TIL George Washington was unusually tall (6'2") and quite strong, and never wore a powdered wig.
OG8B7 TIL one freelance artist commissioned to design biscuit tins for Huntley & Palmers had placed secret images in his designs, such as depictions of copulating dogs, copulating people, and a man with a cannabis joint.
R7A01 TIL in 2019, a man went missing during a skiing trip in upstate New York, only to be found 6 days later in California wearing ski gear with no memory of how he got there.
16MpP TIL the movie 'Cape Fear' was originally developed by Steven Spielberg, but he eventually decided it was too violent and traded it to Martin Scorsese in exchange for 'Schindler's List', which Scorsese had decided not to make.