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TIL “Gotham” comes from an older English for “goat home” and was first used to characterize New York in 1807 because the inhabitants where considered by the author a foolish and self-important people.

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X0AwP TIL, in 1916, German agents blew up 2 million pounds of munitions on Black Tom Island in NY Harbor. The explosion damaged the Statue of Liberty.
R7bA8 TIL that the False Consensus Effect is real, and causes people to believe their opinions are more widely shared than they actually are, making us more confident than we should be that we are “right”. This is often exaggerated since we generally surround ourselves with others who share our opinions.
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VxMQ TIL that launching a nuclear weapon in the City of Chicago is punishable by a $1,000 fine.