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TIL Warren Delano, the grandfather of US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, was one of the most successful opium smugglers in China.

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8aELb TIL The shrine buildings at Ise, Shinto’s holiest site, are torn down & rebuilt every 20yrs in line with the belief in the impermanence of all things & as a way to pass building techniques across generations. The buildings have existed for ~1300yrs; the 63rd rebuilding occurs in 2033.
OGkLe TIL In August 1854, armed with pistols, swords and clubs hundreds of mutually antagonistic Chinese miners from the same region — the Pearl River Delta — fought a pitched battle on the outskirts of California town, Weaverville
KO8a TIL Napolean Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 is a large part why we know so much about Ancient Egypt. He brought a team of 160 scientists, astronomers, engineers, architects, artists, interpreters, and printers to record and document what he found.
Z8DZp TIL Robert Lane named his sons Winner and Loser. Winner Lane became a small-time crook, racking up over 30 arrests and a stint in state prison, while Loser Lane was a star student and athlete, who became a police detective in New York City.
N7LOE TIL that the intestines (Goldbeater’s skins) of 250,000-450,000 cows where needed to build one WW1 Zeppelin.