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TIL the original translation of “mortgage” means “death pledge”

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6EykW TIL: There's a 27 metre, ~1600 years old Anglo-Saxon ship buried in the Suffolk countryside
jNOWE TIL that in 2013 Tina Turner became a citizen of Switzerland, and relinquished her US citizenship.
nWDL9 TIL that Lou Gehrig lived with his parents until he was 30, having won three World Series championships by the time he moved out.
PY4rV TIL that there was an English Shepherd in the 1700s that not only learned basic mathematics, but became highly sought after as a tutor, often spending two or three months at a time in the houses of his "pupils"
MeWRW TIL When Rick James attended a dinner party in Hawaii with Salvador Dali, Dali insisted on drawing him, sketched him on a napkin and gave it to him. The priceless memento became an inky blob the next morning when he smoked a joint and went swimming with the napkin still in his swim trunks.