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TIL of William Jenner who died in 1798 leaving an estate of £2m. His heirs fought over his estate until it was finally consumed by legal fees in 1915.

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lgo5 TIL in 2007 a woman who only occasionally played an old game boy (for which Tetris was the only game she owned) on long car rides and plane flights broke the world record by 500 lines.
dDVyQ TIL The national animal of Scotland, the unicorn, is celebrated on April 9th- National Unicorn Day.
6EmQZ TIL in 2006, a freelance journalist from California was jailed by federal district court for 226 days. This is because he refused to turn over his videotapes of an anti-G8 protest, in which some protesters vandalized property and one of them being choked by a cop
0d1oR TIL about "terra preta" ("black soil"), a very dark and fertile regenerating soil present in the Amazon Basin.
lGpN TIL that the company that created Zyklon B, the gas that was used to kill millions of Jews in the Holocaust, still exists as a pest control company.