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TIL that Central Park is only the 5th largest park in NYC

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xJD5 TIL North Korea is the only country to have been caught cheating at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Twice.
5VXLp TIL about Camp Century, a subsurface base built below Greenland by the US in the 1950s that was powered by a mobile nuclear reactor. The base had 21 tunnels almost 2 miles in length and was designed to withstand a nuclear strike
w958 TIL sporting goods company Wilson was started in 1913 as a way to use animal by-products from New York slaughterhouses. Its first products were strings for tennis rackets and violins
aZ19 TIL Flush Toilets were invented in India (Indus Valley Civilization, the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro)
0wQmN TIL Despite publishing vast quantities of literature only three Mayan books exist today due to the Spanish ordering all Mayan books and libraries to be destroyed for being, "lies of the devil."