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TIL the reason you can't go into the arm of the Statue of Liberty is because of the 1916 German attack on Tom Black Island.

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awjeA TIL in 2016 Russia’s national air carrier Aeroflot directly linked the pay of its flight attendants to their dress size. This was defended as a “fuel saving” measure.
78MgX TIL the person who named the 'pacific': Ferdinand Magellan
8apmK TIL that in 1937 a newspaper published a full-page map predicting Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
VMpPk TIL that the first synthetic plastic was invented as a submission in a $10,000 award contest to find a replacement for ivory in the manufacture of billiard balls.
epwx4 TIL that in 2002, after incumbent Minnesota Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chose former VP Walter Mondale to replace Wellstone a week before the election. This marked Mondale's return to politics after 22 years, losing with 47% of the vote