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TIL people turn old graphics cards into chic purses

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D14oJ TIL, a small triangle in NYC about 27x25x27 inches was not accounted for in an eminent domain seizure in 1914. The owner installed a small mosaic which said "PROPERTY OF THE HESS ESTATE WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES." It is still there today.
7rg7r TIL of Ryan M. Kelly who found out he won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the Charlottesville's attack on the same day he quit his job as a photo journalist to go work for a brewery.
nWPlB TIL PlayStation 3 used to have a feature called otherOS which was an official way to run linux and freeBSD distributions on the PS3. Sony later removed this in a patch
EgmrV TIL the phenomena of a jubilee where sea life rise close to the surface resulting in easy fishing only happens in two places....Tokyo Bay and Mobile Bay in Alabama
X0bA8 TIL that People v. Levi Weeks (1800) is considered the first murder trial in the United States to have a full, formal transcript. Weeks was accused of killing Elma Sands and was defended by Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.