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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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lo07N TIL it is estimated that it will take another 300-700 years for the land in northern France to fully recover from the impact of WWI due to the vast amount of unexploded ordnance and poisoned soil.
YpjWZ TIL that King George V, on a visit to Japan, had a local artist tattoo a blue and red dragon on his arm in 1881.
MeBra TIL the state of Maryland narrows to a width of less than two miles (3 km) in the Hancock area—the smallest non-vertex border-to-border distance of any U.S. state
ob9R TIL as of 2011, there are still ~170 trees in Hiroshima that survived the atomic bomb; they are called the ‘Hibakujumoku’
YpWPZ Til about the unofficial saint of handguns, St Gabriel Possenti who save a town from RedShirts by shooting a lizard on the road