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TIL of the Hess Triangle: the smallest privately-owned plot of land in New York City.

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WkmxB TIL - Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
69GpQ TIL that the 25 day long 1990 Strangeways Prison Riot was the longest ever British prison riot, started in protest against overcrowded and unhygienic conditions, guard brutality, and the misuse of drugs.
gM1oD TIL of the Taylor Energy Oil Spill, the an oil spill that has been going on for 12+ years in the Gulf and will soon surpass the BP Spill in size
0XP5 TIL that the auditory and visual hallucinations along with many other symptoms of acute carbon monoxide poisoning are probably the cause of haunted houses and ghost stories.
v1oB4 TIL Shia LaBeouf came under heavy fire for plagiarizing his directorial debut in 2012. When he publicly apologized to the original artist, Dan Clowes, people discovered that Shia's apology was itself plagiarized verbatim off a Yahoo Answers post from 2010.