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TIL George Washington had to borrow money to travel to New York to be inaugurated as the first President

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JYrGj TIL I learned that the British Museum may hold many artifacts from around the world and also refuses to hand over the artifacts they took it from.
l7PMV TIL Between 1967 and 1990, there were two states called "Yemen". "South Yemen" was more northerly than "North Yemen". It was also situated to the east.
40d6 TIL of Texas inmate Jerry Hartfield who has been imprisoned for 35 years, even though his conviction was overturned in 1980. He has never been retried in that time.
LRam TIL In 2011 NASA discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water in space to date; clocking in at 12 billion lightyears from Earth and holding the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the Earths oceans.
dmE8 TIL the average commercial airliner gets hit by lightning a little more than once a year