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TIL the Outerbridge Crossing, connecting Staten Island to Perth Amboy, was not named so because it's the outermost bridge in NYC, but in honor of the first chairman of the Port Authority of NY and NJ, Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge
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TIL about enclaves and other geographic anomalies: Dahala Khagrabari, a piece of India within a piece of Bangladesh within a piece of India within Bangladesh; and Vulcan Point, the world’s largest island within a lake that is situated on an island located in a lake
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TIL: Toilet paper wasn’t invented until the 1800s and many countries do not use TP!