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TIL about the affluent African American community Seneca Village that was leveled to make Central Park in New York City.

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l4kG TIL the children’s television show “Arthur” did a parody of “South Park”, where aliens come to earth, abduct and try to eat Arthur, but don’t due to his high cholesterol.
197W TIL an obscure mathematical principle called Zipf’s law has predicted the size of mega-cities all over the world. And nobody knows why.
XERYj TIL of Lucky and Flo, two Labrador Retrievers who were the first animals trained to detect optical discs by scent, in order to sniff out DVDs. After a raid on a bootleg DVD ring in Malaysia, reports said the dogs were now targeted by the DVD pirates and that a bounty had been put on their heads.
KOyJ9 TIL in 1983, 50 corporations controlled 90% of the American media, including magazines, books, music, news feeds, newspapers, movies, radio and television. By 1992 that number had dropped by half. By 2000, six corporations had ownership of most media, and today five dominate the industry.
XdJQ TIL that “Amor De Cosmos” (“Lover of the Universe”) was the 2nd Premier of BC and a Founding Father of Canada. He was known to get into fist fights, was an early photographer, Mormon, and was declared insane after trying to start a hot food delivery business.