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TIL several puppies died in Disney’s Snow Buddies
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TIL that there was human species called Homo Floresiensis, that were very small - only 1.1 m (3 f 7in) in heights
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TIL of "The Baja" - a 580-acre section of Delaware that borders New Jersey. Despite being on the eastern side of the Delaware River, New Jersey has lost three Supreme Court cases trying to acquire it from Delaware.
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TIL the streets of London were once paved in gold: fool's gold. Martin Frobisher shipped over a thousand tons of fool's gold from what's now Canada to London under the impression he was shipping gold ore. When it was later discovered it was no more than iron pyrite to use it for road metalling.
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TIL that a couple years ago new railings were installed on the Golden Gate Bridge and when the wind goes through them it creates a humming noise that can be heard all throughout San Francisco in the right conditions.
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TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their sight restored though surgery, and, no they could not.