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TIL That Broadway Street was called the Wickquasgeck trail in the Native American era.

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9YRGB TIL There's a pink manta ray near Australia. It likely has a genetic mutation causing the unusual coloration.
oRnGo TIL that planets don't orbit the centre of the Sun. They orbit the Solar System's centre of mass (Barycenter).
0M4y TIL in World War I, Germans used a non-lethal gas that could penetrate American gas masks and cause vomiting. When soldiers removed their masks to vomit, they were exposed to the fatal gasses already in the air.
oPY7 TIL JFK Warned About Secret Societies and the Danger of the Media Reporting On Trivial Matters for Entertainment Instead of News
65rl TIL that the surface gravities of Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all quite similar (within 15%) to Earth’s. Thus, the majority of planets in our solar system actually have Earth-like surface gravity.