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TIL That Alaska Was Hit By A Megatsunami, 4th Largest One On Earth, In 2015

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VMmNp TIL that in 1772, a boy named Tarare was born with a peculiar deformity. He was able to eat anything without feeling full even after eating pounds of food. He died in 1792 from Tuberculosis, not obesity.
w4eY TIL that the captain of the Costa Condordia has yet to serve any of his prison sentence, and even taught a panic management course two years after he panicked and abandoned his ship before any passengers could get off.
OoGnX [TIL] A man nicknamed "God's Banker" because of his work with the Vatican was killed by the mafia and hanged from Blackfriar's Bridge in London in 1982- with bricks and $15,000 in his pockets.
W718N TIL The author of Peter Pan also wrote a 19th century book on quitting smoking - Before he conceived of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie decided it was time to grow up and quit smoking. He justifies this decision in My Lady Nicotine. The bodily and spiritual ruin, the economic impact.
lyEG TIL After killing Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr traveled to Europe and solicited funds to raise an army and invade Mexico. He planned on making himself the king of Mexico.