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TIL that The Empire State Building has its own postcode

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Z85K4 TIL that a Golf magazine managed to free a man from prison after serving for 27 years on a false charge for murder. “It’s embarrassing for the legal system that for a long time the best presentation of the investigation was from a golf magazine.” - Donald Thompson
D1yxY TIL that the Romans kept and cared for sacred geese in a temple, who then alerted them to an attack by invading Gauls, saving the city.
KROB TIL Harrison Ford made $10,000 for A New Hope and $20,000,000 for The Force Awakens
Z84LQ TIL about George Welch and Kenneth Taylor who were some of the only U.S. pilots to get in the air during the attack on Pearl Harbor. They are reported to have raced back to the airbase that morning after playing an all-night poker game. They managed to shoot down at least six Japanese planes.
gMNjL TIL the Netherlands loaned 2,5 million dollars to John Adams, who was the ambassador to NL back in 1782. This was done in order to stabilize the US after their war of independence finished. In today's value that would be a loan of roughly 150 billion dollars.