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TIL Humans can run down any animal on Earth
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TIL that Seneca Village, a community composed mainly of free black people, was destroyed in the 1850s to make way for New York City's Central Park
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Today I learned that Al Capone Ran a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression
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TIL there is an island in the Scottish Hebrides that is owned entirely by its people. With a population of 83, the Isle of Eigg has been owned by its community since being bought in 1997, after decades of issues with absentee landlords, and generates 100% of its electricity using renewable energy
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TIL How streets, roads, and avenues are different and what the names mean. Road runs between two distant points — two towns, for example. Street applies to urban roadways.
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TIL that the US' control of the Helium supply during the war, caused the Hindenburg to use Hydrogen (which is much more combustible) instead and indirectly contributed towards its demise.