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TIL that Central Park is only the 5th largest park in NYC
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TIL We perceive our first few years to be much longer in duration than the years that come later. If you measure your life this way, in “perceived” time rather than actual time, half of your “perceived life” is over by age 7.
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TIL Abraham Lincoln authorized the creation of the Secret Service whose original purpose was to investigate counterfeit money which accounted for almost half of all US currency. He was shot the same day.
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TIL that actor Ed Helms who plays Stu in the Hangover movies, had a tooth implant from when he was 15, which he removed while shooting for the first Hangover where his character has a tooth missing for most of the film.
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TIL Suzanne Vega's original a capella version of Tom's Dinner was used to tune the MP3 audio format.
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TIL The Help Celebrate Our 150th American Independence Day in 1926, Poland Presented President Coolidge with a birthday present to America as a big thank you for aid during WW1. The present was an 11 volume, 300,000 pages of 5.5 million (1/6 of population then) signatures from polish people.