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GAWNG TIL Queensbridge Houses is the largest public housing development in the USA. It contains 29 buildings and 3,142 units for 7,000 people.
OGGrR TIL about the Viviers family, who moved from South Africa to Northern BC, Canada because of an extreme allergy to sunlight. Prince Rupert is one of the most reliably cloudy places on the planet, and the Viviers family won a Supreme Court decision to become permanent residents on medical grounds.
9Yxm7 TIL that the name Caligula is a childhood nickname that roughly translates to “little boots” or “bootikins.” The infamous emperor, whose real name was Gaius, hated it.
ZOaD TIL that Henry Ford published “The International Jew”, a 4-volume, 80-chapter chronicle of the “Jewish menace”
x4bB TIL that baked beans started with a bean native to the Americas exported to France/Italy in the 1500’s, were brought back to America with European colonization, then exported to the UK as an “American delicacy” in the late 1800’s, and are now reimported to the US as “UK Baked Beans”