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TIL New York destroyed an entire village full of African-American landowners to create Central Park

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VMl4Q TIL A neutron star is so dense that a matchbox sized portion of one would weigh 3 billion tons.
LQd0r TIL, Today in history - Arauco War: A series of coordinated Mapuche attacks took place against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile, beginning a ten-year period of warfare.
OoDa4 TIL In 2016, a British man crowdfunded a ten hour film of paint drying in order to force the British Board of Film Classification to watch it, as part of a protest against it. This is due to independent filmmakers needing to pay £1,000 per submission in order to be certified. The film received a U.
l7MPB TIL that in the 1600s there was an English chef called Robert May who made pastry ships that featured cannons with real gunpowder, which, when lit for mock battle, caused the ships to explode in a cloud of smoke
b67vp TIL the guy who (supposedly) inspired the film The Terminal wasn’t the only person to have lived in an airport. There’s a whole list of them, including a guy who lived in an airport for 27 years!