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TIL Johnny Appleseed didn’t plant his trees to feed people, he planted them to sell them and get people drunk.

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E19m7 TIL: The default location of an IP address in the USA, if no more granular location information is available, is mapped to a farm in Kansas. Because of this, the owners have been constantly harassed and visited by the FBI, IRS and others who have been scammed by someone with a US IP address
DQXEp TIL about Ngerulmud, the capital of Palau and the least populous capital city in the world. It has an official population of 0.
KYow4 TIL James Patterson has made more than $700M having sold more than 425M copies of his books.
oBb07 TIL the wreckage of the train and bus from the hit movie The Fugitive were left in place in North Carolina at the request of the Smoky Mountain Railway, which sees them as a tourist attraction.
1xAW TIL that the Chicago Cubs were the first baseball team to win back-to-back World Series; and haven’t won since