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QN9Wa TIL In 1875 Benjamin Franklin returned from France with an unexplained shortage of 100,000 pounds in Congressional funds. Franklin, quoting the Bible, quipped, "Muzzle not the ox that treadeth out his master's grain." The missing funds were never again mentioned in Congress.
ZBjo TIL The Hudson’s Bay Company, now a Canadian department store, is 347 years old and once controlled 3,000,000 sq. miles of land.
Oo5Oe TIL About Charlie, a Blue Macaw who is still alive after 120 years. He first hatched in 1899 and is the oldest of his kind ever recorded. He can be heard screeching anti-Nazi propoganda at his home at a garden centre in England.
b9WoE TIL: The worst sports disaster took place in 29 CE in a cheap wooden stadium in Fidenae, 8 miles north of Rome. It collapsed during a crowded gladiator game and killed at least 20,000 people. The Roman Senate responded by requiring that future stadiums be inspected and certified.
OGB7e TIL that the University of Michigan's prized Galileo manuscript turned out to be a clever forgery.