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TIL that a large port of NY State is considered Appalachia and has a Federal Commission overseeing the development of the impoverished population

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QNMdL TIL that in 2012 pirates mistook a Spanish warship for a cargo ship and attempted to board it.
oR4GL TIL of an elephant given by Louis IX of France as a gift to Henry III of England in 1255. While living in the Tower of London, the elephant was given a diet of prime cuts of beef and expensive red wine; it was claimed that the elephant died in 1257 from drinking too much wine.
Z0DY TIL when Schwarzenegger turned down the planned sequal to Commando, it was reworked to star Bruce Willis and was retitled Die Hard.
1aaZ4 TIL Most cops aren't trained properly and we see the direct results of this daily. This EX police officer explains why he and many other good 'cops' find themselves becoming worse citizens than who they are even arresting and targeting.
PYQrZ TIL Lego didn't invent interlocking bricks, they just copied them from a toy that wasn't patented in Denmark