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TIL that a "nickelodeon" was an early type of small movie theater that cost a nickel

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VMDe8 TIL the passenger pigeon once had a population of 3-5 billion birds in North America. Hunters killed tens of thousands of them every day, then ignored calls to protect them when their numbers dwindled, until the last wild one was shot and stuffed in 1902, and the last captive one died in 1912.
XEGy6 TIL Tesla, Inc. also known as Tesla Motors, the American electric-automobile manufacturer, was founded in 2003 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.
rRxBw TIL that King Edward IV borrowed $348 from Oxford University in 1861. The king paid back $160 but never covered the remaining $224. The debt was forgotten until 1996, when it was rediscovered and calculated to have accumulated to $290 Billion.
KYYY4 TIL that there is still a legally prescribed version of meth called Desoxyn for children with ADHD or short-term weight loss
neXK7 TIL in 1943, Stanisława Leszczyńska, a Polish Catholic and professional midwife, was arrested by the Gestapo for aiding Jews. Sent to Auschwitz, she was assigned to work at the camp’s “maternity ward” and spent the remainder of the war delivering three thousand babies in unthinkable conditions