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TIL New York City paid more for Central Park than America paid for Alaska.

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ne7kr TIL The term "rocket-propelled grenade", though frequently encountered, is a backronym of the "RPG" from the translation of Ручной Противотанковый Гранатомёт (Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomyot) Russian for "handheld anti-tank grenade launcher" and not based on a true literal translation.
DQ0rp TIL CSPAN Presidential Historians Survey from 2000-2017 consistently rank the top 3 GOAT U.S. presidents as Lincoln, Washington, and FDR. The worst ranked president was James Buchanan. Lincoln, Washington, FDR scored highest in Crisis Leadership, Moral Authority, and Public Persuasion respectively
Q7R9 TIL Bill Gaines of MAD Magazine send the whole staff to Haiti to thank their ONE Haitian subscriber.
lwYV TIL about Lyenkoism, a pseudo-scientific theory that claimed that communism was nature’s base state in rejection to natural selection and genetic sciences. It was the official theory in the USSR until Stalin’s death.
neJ4d TIL about the Dionne quintuplets. They lived in a specially built hospital nicknamed "Quintland" in the mid 1930's in Ontario. They were the biggest tourist attraction at the time, bringing in more than $50 million in revenue and were also used in film and to promote Quaker Oats.