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TIL that Central Park is only the 5th largest park in NYC
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TIL that the inventor of the Popsicle was just an 11-year old kid.
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TIL that in ancient Athens, it was illegal for a person to hit a slave who did not belong to him, because it was difficult to tell a citizen from a slave by appearance alone. So if it were legal to hit another person's slave, then people would end up mistakenly hitting citizens on a regular basis.
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TIL the largest family to perish on the Titanic was the Sage family of Peterborough, England. Mr and Mrs Sage and their nine children all died in the sinking. Only the body of their 13-year-old son was recovered.
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TIL there is a plane that flies above Los Angeles every single day releasing thousands of sterile fruit flies from 2,000ft in the air to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly. Up to 125,000 flies per square mile are released each week in what’s called “biological birth control”
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TIL that the restaurant chain Red Lobster once lost over $3 million during an "endless crab" promotion because an executive underestimated how much people could eat.