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TIL Switzerland is prepared to blow up its roads, bridges, and tunnels and trigger blockading mountain slides and tree-falls if an invasion were to ever happen.

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v5AL TIL that the day after Thanksgiving isn’t referred to as “Black Friday” because of the profits seen by retailers, but was originally coined by traffic cops in Philadelphia to describe the disastrous traffic conditions
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9Yw6Q TIL that New York City has added over 300,000 new residents since 2010, yet only 50,000 housing units have been approved
YBbB TIL there was a 1934 plan to dam and fill the Hudson River, adding 10 square miles of land to Manhattan
R5LEQ TIL that the first known museum dates to circa 530 BC in the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and was an exhibit of artefacts from earlier Mesopotamian kingdoms. Its curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of King Nabonidus (who has been called 'the first archeologist'.)