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TIL The Statue of Liberty’s copper skin is about the thickness of 2 pennies.

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4keAo TIL about Pak Bean, a man from Pakistan that impersonates Mr Bean
mWmy TIL Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane was booked on the first plane that hit the World Trade Centre on 9/11 but missed the flight by 10 minutes because his travel agent wrote the wrong time on his itinerary.
1aJ94 TIL that in British Columbia, it is against provincial regulations to make servers provide their own float, pay for "dine-and-dash" bills, or cover breakages and cash shortages.
BgXgx TIL Despite its large population and high overall density, Mumbai has a maximum Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of about 1.3, even in some of the most central locations. New York is less dense but allows a FAR of 15
E1k7x TIL in a space of 58 days between December 15, 1951 and February 11, 1952 there were three airplane crashes in Elizabethtown, NJ.