TIL that Handel's Messiah premiered as a charity performance. It raised 400 pounds and freed 142 men from debtor's prison.

TIL that a man forged Spanish records to claim more than 12 million acres of Arizona and New Mexico as part of an 18th-century land grant.

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TIL Elizabeth Holmes led investors to believe Theranos's blood-testing technology had been deployed by the U.S. military on the battlefield. It had never actually been deployed there.