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TIL that Aaron Burr went broke speculatively buying parcels of land in upstate New York. He did this while living on twenty-six acres in what would become some of downtown NYC's most prime real estate.

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BrG0r TIL chimpanzees actually do understand rhythm and have been seen clapping and stomping specifically to the beat of a song
nBZG TIL that Jimmy Diresta shot and produced an instructional DVD for Nick Offerman in 2008. Offerman paid him with a canoe.
R7PB9 Today I learned of the severed feet of Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. Since 2007 at least 20 human feet have washed up on shore. It has been blamed on everything from a serial killer to plane crashes to a tsunami with the most likely explanation being some combination of these.
l4l1 TIL pit stains come from the aluminum in antipersperant plus your sweat reacting to touching cotton, and is avoidable with aluminum-free antiperspirant
pgV8 TIL that drug lord Pablo Escobar had an estimated net worth of $30 billion by the early 1990s, equivalent to about $55 billion in 2016.