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TIL that the Statue of Liberty’s torch has been closed off since 1916, after shrapnel from an explosion caused by Germans to sabotage munitions for the Allied powers.

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6EA7l TIL a man in England accidentally blew up his parents’ house after he knocked on a stove’s control, which burned a clothes basket, which then lit a grocery bag on fire and caused an aerosol can of deodorant to explode, resulting in £20,000 ($26,182) in damages.
kJ8G1 TIL babies can’t be born in space yet.
loga7 TIL that the popular 90s sitcom Family Matters was a spin-off of a popular 80s sitcom, Perfect Strangers.
NXy96 TIL that by his second marriage, Napoleon became the great-nephew-in-law of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
LQ05r TIL Tsunamis also happen in the Mediterranean.