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TIL Gotham City is canonically located in New Jersey

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vPB18 TIL of the view that the response to the "Year 2000 problem" was indeed an overreaction, as evidenced by countries such as South Korea and Russia who invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation having the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money
nWa5G TIL about the ghost ship Sachem, which started as a world class yacht in NYC, became a warship in WW1, transported Thomas Edison for wartime experiments, and eventually became a pleasure ship again before becoming stuck in a small creek in Kentucky where it sits today.
OoZR6 TIL forcing left-handed children to write with their right hands is not in any way innocuous or helpful- it is actually harmful to their developing brains and can result in dyslexia, stuttering and other learning or speech disorders.
P196O TIL there are people in France who have actually done time in jail for stealing garden gnomes in the name of The Garden Gnome Liberation Front
e0yNk TIL Tina Turner's real name was Anna Mae Bullock. Ike Turner not only invented the name "Tina Turner" as her stage name, but he had it trademarked, so that in case she left, another singer could perform under the same name.