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TIL That the old London Bridge is in Lake Havasu, AZ

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JoMB TIL Thomas Jefferson built a clock on the outside wall of his house with only an hour hand, as he believed an hour hand would be accurate enough for his slaves
Noe6 TIL of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted of the crime and later admitted to the murder. Till’s mother had an open-casket funeral to display the injustice, helping spur the civil rights movement.
KOjQ TIL despite having the tag line “Gotta Catch ‘Em All”, Ash Ketchum only caught 43/649 Pokémon.
nWJGo TIL the HMS Detroit 20-gun sloop was captured in 1813, too damaged to help the war it was sunk for preservation. 20 years later it was refloated and converted for commercial service. 8 years later a purchaser tried to send it over Niagara Falls where it instead broke up on a shoal.
xVyd1 TIL that uninsured Americans just die if they can't afford to pay their medical bills.