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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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9YYnr TIL of Vulcan Point in the Philippines: an island within a lake within an island within a lake within an island.
8a1GV TIL Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, who played an important part in the Battle of Waterloo, and was instrumental in defeating Napoleon in 1814, suffered a mental breakdown during the war, lost his sight, and believed that a Frenchman had impregnated him with an elephant.
9YEQp TIL the pirate 'Black Bart' believed Irish people to be some of the worst people to have on your crew due to them being highly mutinous. As a result, many people who Bart tried to force into piracy would often fake an Irish accent so they could get out of it.
grno4 TIL Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to moon dust.
8awdb TIL whales evolved from a small four legged mouse like creature called an Indohyus.