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TIL in 1870, the corrupt leader of NYC’s city Hall, Boss Tweed offered the New York Times the equivalent of $100 million to not publish their expose on his political corruption.

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d8Zdr TIL of the SS Pacific, a trans-Atlantic steamer that disappeared on a routine voyage between Liverpool and New York in 1856. In 1861, a message in a bottle released by a doomed passenger describing the ship sinking due to icebergs washed ashore in the Hebrides- solving the mystery.
D1ErP TIL that the barge 'Akademik Lomonosov' in the Russian Far East is the world's first floating nuclear power station. It is also the world's northernmost nuclear power plant.
J1KeV TIL Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg) was fluent in French, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, Greek and Italian.
b6869 TIL that Electric Vehicles Lithium batteries are very difficult to extinguish in case of setting fire. It takes as much water as on a regular house fire. EV’s can also catch fire several weeks after a crash .
Zplao TIL that two US Presidents were citizens of the confederacy, John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson