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TIL that there is a place on Earth known as “Point Nemo” that is so far away from any island or mainland that the closest people to that point are actually the astronauts on the International Space Station.

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9gar TIL that New York City officials admitted they forgot about a stalled train during the 2010 blizzard, which left dozens of passengers stranded for 7 hours. The subway chief said at a hearing they simply “forgot about that train.”
MN0A TIL the Federal Tax Code is 73,954 pages long. One hundred years ago it was only 400 pages.
lp97 TIL there is a town in NY known as Oniontown, where residents are rumored to be so xenophobic (and inbred) they will attack anyone who drives there.
4X0Ob TIL: Much (but not all) of Weird Al Yankovic's music is satire, rather than parody. Thus it is not protected by the Fair Use Doctrine.
oYbW TIL Helena Bonham Carter’s maternal grandfather saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II