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TIL the Kingdome in Seattle (former home of the Mariners) will finally be paid off in two years. It was demolished 14 years ago.

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PGpE TIL that when David Copperfield and his assistants were held up at gunpoint, he used sleight of hand to conceal his possessions from the robber
yV5av TIL Women have been legally allowed to go topless in public in New York City since 1992
v1J5B TIL that Alexander the Great once built a half-mile causeway through the sea to capture the impregnable Tyre island. The island has remained a peninsula ever since
0wKBN TIL that Ghengis Khan was provoked into invading Persia by a slaughtered merchant caravan and a beheaded diplomat.
x6NXb TIL the survivors of a wrecked whaling ship were so afraid of non-existent cannibals on much closer pacific islands that they chose to sail a considerably larger distance. This resulted in only five of seventeen surviving and, ironically, the survivors resorting to cannibalism.