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TIL the Brooklyn bridge originally was called the New York and Brooklyn bridge

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kONKm TIL The character Machete is canonical the same character as Machete from the “spy kids” movies.
BXnW TIL that a wanted pimp had such a sophisticated pattern lock on his android phone that the FBI was unable to crack it. They had to serve Google with a warrant to try and help them.
BOEL TIL in a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
0o7y TIL that Trey Parker initially thought that the South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” would be the end of South Park’s positive reputation. The episode is considered one of the best by fans.
ZYG4 TIL there is an island called North Sentinel Island, and it is home to an small, ancient tribal civilization called the Sentinelese. They are one of the last groups on the planet to be virtually untouched by modern civilization and are known to murder those who get too close to their island.