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TIL The Statue of Liberty was originally designed for the Suez Canal in Egypt

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Zp4ZR TIL Research shows that experiencing chronic loneliness is as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and worse than obesity. It’s associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease and stroke, and increases our likelihood of early mortality by 26 per cent.
YpOmx TIL Garfield's assassin, Charles Guiteau, was so hated that when he joined a Christian free love commune, no one would have sex with him. They started calling him Charles Gitout, a play on words for "get out".
WKYY TIL Hot Pockets were originally called Chunk Stuffers
78BMM TIL about the "Phantom of Heilbronn," a mysterious female serial killer suspect who baffled German police for years, until it turned out the DNA evidence was contaminated by factory workers making the cotton swabs used in forensic tests.
xVMYk TIL During the NYC blackout of 1977, the crew filming “Superman” outside the old Daily News building on 42nd Street lent their klieg lights to the editors so they could see the newspaper pages they were laying out.