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TIL that life in Puritan New England was so hard that children who were abducted by Native Americans often refused to come back

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1vn7 TIL a 120-meter-deep, 17th-Century salt mine in Romania has been converted to the world’s largest salt mining museum and amusement park, complete with a Ferris wheel, an amphitheater, light shows on the rock walls and boat rides on a subterranean lake.
p8kPZ TIL of an alleged mental disorder called 'zero stroke' which came about during German hyperinflation in the early 1920s. Those affected would write endless strings of zeros and, in some cases, state that they were ten billion years old or had forty trillion children
NwpE TIL that due to changes in local gravity, a pendulum clock accurate at sea level will lose around 16 seconds per day if moved to an altitude of 4000 feet.
v9br TIL To put an end to the 2002 Nord-Ost siege in Moscow Russian officials decided to use a classified gas to put everyone inside asleep but the gas killed over 100 of the hostages while Russian officials would not tell doctors what was used in the gas.
D1Maj TIL that there is one single VJ for all of MTV -- Sophia Parola -- and she's assigned to mtvU, their lone music video platform that caters to digital feeds into college campuses.