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TIL Central Park is only NYC’s fifth-largest park

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mGBp TIL Morgan Freeman didn’t appear in a movie until age 34, and didn’t get a big role until he was 52, with Driving Miss Daisy and Glory
Z8JOa TIL that Lucy Maud Montgomery stored her now-famous book Anne of Green Gables in a hat box after it was rejected by every publisher she sent it to. Years later she tried again, and the book has now sold 50 million copies.
6nYZ TIL that in two days we create the same amount of information that it took all of humanity to create from the dawn of civilization to 2003.
VdO0 TIL the last emperor of china, Puyi, became emperor at 2 then, shortly after, china became a republic. Puyi like many other Chinese emperors stayed separated from the rest of China in the forbidden city. No one told Puyi he was no longer emperor until his mid teenage years.
YpwR7 TIL that in 2009, French free diver Stéphane Mifsud held his breath underwater for 11 minutes and 35 seconds.