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TIL Canadian contest winners have to successfully answer a math question to receive their prize

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oROkR Til wampums were strings of beads used by native Americans as currency among other things. When colonists came, they adopted the practice but then found out an easier way to make them in bulk. This caused inflation and rendered the currency obsolete
QNL4a TIL San Francisco experienced a major earthquake in 1906 that caused the San Andreas Fault to slip. It was followed by massive fire that led to 4 square miles being leveled, 3,000 deaths and 250,000 left homeless. The sound was described as a noise "like the roar of 10,000 lions"
Om9R TIL Jerry Seinfeld’s grandparents were from Aleppo, Syria
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JKAk TIL that when group of freed slaves kneeled before him, Lincoln responded “Don’t kneel to me. You must kneel only to God, and thank him for your freedom. Liberty is your birthright. God gave it to you as he gave it to others, and it is a sin that you have been deprived of it for so many years.”