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TIL that during the entire month of December in 2017, Moscow experienced only 6 minutes of sunlight total

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QNM0a TIL: Cartier owner Richemont bought back and destroyed £400million of its watches to prevent them from being sold at a discount
K5oG TIL 12 Russian botanists starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the winter of 1941, rather than consuming the foodstuffs stored at the world’s first seed bank where they worked, Pavlosk Experimental Station.
5Yd19 TIL the first person sentenced to the stocks in Boston was Edward Palmer, the carpenter who built the stocks. His crime? Charging too much for building the stocks.
JnDk TIL that Abraham Lincoln arrested pro-confederate members of Maryland’s legislature as they were headed to a vote on whether Maryland would secede from the Union, in order to prevent Maryland from seceding.
16byD TIL in 2008 a 20-year-old Belgium student died after reheating and eating leftover spaghetti that had been left out on the kitchen counter for five days. A bacteria called bacillus cereus was found to be the cause, which is an extreme type of food poisoning called “Fried Rice Syndrome”.