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TIL that Emma Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born in 2017 to a mother who was born in 1991

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NXE5E TIL that the Freedom Bell is a 2:1 scale replica of the Liberty Bell that was cast in The Netherlands. It was a bicentennial gift from the American Legion to the nation’s youth and sat in storage for several years before being installed at Union Station in 1981.
loWn1 TIL that there was a fish and egg breakfast dish during Victorian times called "Kedgeeree"
KOJD9 TIL that during a plague outbreak in Romania in 1813, plague sufferers were buried alive. One undertaker squad reported "we collected 15 dead today, but only buried 14, because one of them ran away."
xVbAo TIL being in the US Congress was originally considered a civic duty and only paid $5,000
kJLjd TIL That prior to beginning his career as a singer, Julio Iglesias found his first calling as a goalkeeper for Real Madrid. After an accident derailed his career, he went on to become an attorney, before leaving the practice of law to become the highest selling Spanish language artist of all time.