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TIL that a Jewish-American was the prime financier of the rebels in the American Revolutionary War. He died penniless because no one ever repaid him.

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4XOAb TIL Sejong the Great (King of Korea), invented the Korean alphabet. While Korean was spoken, it used the Chinese alphabet which Koreans found confusing. This led to high illiteracy. King Sejong decided a new alphabet would fix the issue, so he invented one.
D4jr TIL The potato has been studied by NASA as an important food source for long space voyages, and that the amount of potato plants (grown on board a space ship) needed to sustain one astronaut is also the amount of potato plant required to process the air breathed by one astronaut.
rYmM TIL there exists a neurological disorder in which a person’s brain will just ignore one side of an object, usually the left side.
QJjoE TIL scientists prove SOAP BUBBLES can be used to pollinate fruit trees, which could help compensate for the dramatic declines in global bee populations
LkD90 TIL of the staggering level of American alcohol consumption in the 1800s. It peaked in 1830, at the equivalent of 1.7 bottles of standard-strength whiskey, per person, per week.