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TIL That the Statue of Liberty used to be a lighthouse

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BxQx TIL that if we sort known planets (including extrasolar) by standard primary habitability, Earth is only fifth
ADoyo TIL that Lusia Harris of Delta State University was the first woman drafted into the NBA taken in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA draft by the New Orleans Jazz.
m1pEE TIL the Oktoberfest has had a mobile CT scanner at it's medical center since 2022 to distinguish between patients having TBIs and just being drunk
NXG5M TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was informed of Osama Bin Laden’s death before the rest of th world found out. Johnson also made a tweet where he stated that he was proud to be an American, 45 minutes before Bin Laden’s death was announced by the White House.
oRk6A TIL The first attempt at executing somebody via toxic gas had failed because they pumped poison gas directly into the prisoners cell, which then leaked out. They then created a makeshift gas chamber in the prison butcher shop