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TIL Hey Arnold! was set in a fictional place, Hillwood, Washington, as an amalgam of major cities the creator enjoyed. Not specifically in NYC.

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x6pLo TIL that During World War II, the Quaker Oats company , through its subsidiary the Q. O. Ordnance Company, operated the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant as a government-owned, contractor-operated 11,960-acre site that manufactured millions of pieces of various artillery munitions.
5wgB TIL that the hubble telescope required the most perfect mirror ever created. Work on it had to be done at night because the vibrations caused by cars driving 4 miles away were enough to cause damage.
GAPON TIL Yoda was almost played by a monkey in mask!
X04AD TIL Lego was saved from bankruptcy by the release of the Bionicle
9wNvr TIL new facial-recognition analysis appears to prove that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers were, in fact, successful in their escape from Alcatraz.