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TIL Timbuktu is a modern term that is used to describe a remote location, but at one point was a top trade and intellectual center that was made famous by the richest person in the world

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DwGg TIL that, while Edgar Allen Poe was known for his horror writing, he was also fond of high-profile hoaxes and practical jokes.
5Y7Or TIL that in 2010, a Canadian man rescued a newborn baby from a dumpster, only to find out he was the father.
95WX TIL President McKinley was assassinated 113 years ago today. Shot by a crazed Polish anarchist, the the second bullet went through the President’s stomach and lodged near his back. The doctors didn’t find the bullet and McKinley died of gangrene eight days later.
jN1wv TIL “Game of Thrones” actor Kit Harington’s ancestor invented the first flushing toilet for Queen Elizabeth I, called the “John Harington.” It was later just referred to as “the john.”
vNaL TIL there is an enzyme that makes a reaction that normally takes 78 million years occur in 18 milliseconds. 10^17 times faster.