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TIL the Statue of Liberty's torch has been closed for over 100 years due to damage sustained from a WW1 German spy attack.

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gr5VL TIL James Caan ordered a hit (non lethal) on Joe Pesci in 1982 over an unpaid $8000 hotel bill
5ZwD TIL that the London Underground has evolved its own subspecies of mosquito.
R7Daa TIL about James Okubo, a Japanese American who was in college when WWII started studying dentistry, he was kicked out and sent to a Japanese internment camp in CA for 2 years. He then joined the Army as a medic and saved 25 men in a battle in 1944, was posthumously awarded the medal of honor in 2000
e0g1L TIL seven six-foot tall Lego minifigures have washed up on European, American and Japanese beaches between 2007 and 2015. The anonymous sculptor and artist is pseudonymously known as 'Ego Leonard'.
GQ44 TIL: That two student journalists proved the innocence of a man 50 hours before he was due for execution - saving his life and resulting in the real killer’s confession.