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

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6EVwJ TIL that singer-songwriter Tori Amos, received a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five. She is the youngest person ever to have been admitted. At the age of eleven, she was expelled for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination".

yVo6w TIL that in 1909 the entire town of Ulysses, Kansas was relocated 3 miles west to escape their debts

oRZjA TIL when Frank Zappa was a kid, he always played with mercury that his father brought home from work, often covering his entire bedroom floor with the element. Childhood exposure to mercury is known to increase the risk of prostate cancer as an adult. Frank Zappa died from prostate cancer at age 52.

bXBE TIL in a ‘94 Carribean Cup soccer match two teams spent the last 5 minutes of the game furiously trying to score on their own goal

yQkya TIL that there is a enormous amount of water underneath the sand in the Sahara Desert. Estimated to be 18,000 cubic kilometers.