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TIL about Manhattanhenge - a phenomenon where the sun sinks (or rises) directly between the grid of Manhattans skyline

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4kmVa TIL of a big science guy named einstern
OgMg TIL in the early 1900’s, there was a popular female bullfighter who, upon being banned for being a woman, was revealed to really be a man.
WO9X TIL The reason Floyd Mayweather gets paid so much is because he bet on himself by buying out his contract for $750,000 in 2006.
VBnyp TIL that pigeons, sort of, produce milk
KYmbw TIL of Cockney rhyming slang, a form of word construction where words are matched with rhyming pairs and then the rhyming word dropped to create synonym for the original word. So ‘fart’ rhymes with ‘raspberry tart’, which becomes just ‘raspberry’ as in ‘blow a raspberry’