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TIL of Nathaniel Gordon, the only person in the United States to be executed for attempting to sell human beings. Abraham Lincoln refused to commute Gordon’s sentence, despite thousands of people petitioning him for clemency.

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b9EnE TIL Joe Exotic was actually married 5 times in total
noxP TIL there is a charity that buys up mortgages that have gone to collection for pennies on the dollar, then frees the homeowners of the debt. They’ve erased more than $14M so far!
1lZW TIL that Bell telephone could have made the internet back in the 1960s if their “picturephone” service had not flopped.
neA59 TIL about ripening caching, where animals will hoard initially inedible food items with the intention of ripening it. Tayras, a type of Central American weasel, have been observed hiding whole green plantains which they come back to eat once ripened.
neV9d TIL: Pokémon Go players walked 8.7 billion km collectively in 2016 – enough to get to the end of the Solar System