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TIL Benjamin Franklin left the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $2,000 in his will, but they couldn't draw the full balance for 200 years. In 1990, the cities received $6.5 million.

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0w5kj TIL that Apollo 12 was an exercise in precision landing targeting, and succeeded in landing within walking distance of the Surveyor-3 probe that was launched a few years earlier.
pmP4 TIL: People in Iceland genuinely believe in elves. They live in the forests and they have an elf church.
VBE9p TIL that potting soil can spontaneously combust!
8aAr4 TIL Frank Lloyd Wright designed a gas station that was opened in 1958, one year before his death. It was the only gas station he designed. It is in Cloquet, MN and is still in service to this day.
VMkrB TIL James Cameron sold the rights to The Terminator for $1 on the condition he could direct the film. He regrets making the decision to sell but he regains the rights back to the franchise in 2019 due to changes in copyright law