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TIL LaGuardia Airport was built on the site of a former amusement park owned by piano manufacturer William Steinway.

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m1vKP TIL Foot binding, the practice of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size, was still prevalent in China until the early 20th century.
0OyL TIL an Australian news anchor wore the same suit every day for a year to illustrate the fashion double standard for men and women. No one noticed.
wo5po Today I learned that the largest snowman ever built was in Maine in 2008 and measured 122 feet, 7 inches tall.
e0KL5 TIL of the 1804 Haiti massacre that was carried out against the remaining white population in Haiti by Haitian soldiers. Squads moved from house to house, torturing and killing entire families. These events polarized Southern U.S. public opinion on the question of the abolition of slavery.
N7gw8 TIL Bob Weinstein wanted Peter Jackson to cut out the Battle of Helm's deep, merge Gondor and Rohan into one kingdom, and make Éowyn Boromir's sister during the production of The Lord of the Rings movies.