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TIL the Statue of Liberty’s star-shaped base is actually an old artillery fort built to protect the NYC harbor.

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75XL TIL Earth’s crust under the Solar Eclipse of Aug 21 will rise about 40 millimeters, due to the combined gravitational force of the Sun and the Moon.
mW0P TIL a group of researchers using sonar to look for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan found a Stonehenge-like structure 40 feet beneath the surface of the water - the formation could be as much as 10,000 years old.
oBXeY TIL that the 'leaf sheep,' a sea slug native to Japan, is an animal that can photosynthesize. It eats algae and retains the chloroplasts that plants use for photosynthesis and can live for months on photosynthesis alone.
1al5P TIL about Tommy Cooper - comedian who died on live TV while the audience laughed, thinking it was part of the act
kJBWB TIL about The Pig Precinct. In 1972 after the Iowa state supreme court ordered legislative redistricting a new district was created that did not have any human residents, just pigs. They were the only full-time residents housed in an experimental animal disease laboratory.