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

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Oo4Y7 TIL two of the three members of rock band ZZ Top have long beards. The third, Frank Beard prefers to be clean shaven.
LQjYZ TIL of Narco-Pentecostalism, which is a term used to identify the link between Pentecostal Christianity and Brazillian narco gangs. Gangs under this label use religious iconography within their territories and often persecute non Christian groups, along with other crime such as drugs and violence.
Odna TIL the founder of the FBI, who had also served as Secretary of the Navy and US Attorney General was the great nephew of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
GY1ag TIL that some monkeys and chimpanzees have officially entered the stone age
b9mka TIL that Duct Tape was originally called Duck Tape. In WWII, Johnson & Johnson created a waterproof rubber adhesive tape applied to a durable duck cloth backing for use as waterproof sealing tape on ammunition cases: "Duck Tape". Later it was used to seal air ducts in forced-air heating HVAC systems