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TIL 65% of Staten Island voted to secede from the rest of New York City in 1993, only to have their efforts blocked by the State Assembly

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5Y1Q8 TIL about how British forces burned the city of Cork in Ireland in 1920 as an act of retribution in the Irish War of Independence
WkjJN TIL Hungary preserves its communist-era monuments in a park, the collection includes a statue of Stalin's giant boots
601w TIL the naked mole-rat is the only eusocial, thermoconforming mammal, they are highly insensitive to pain, very resistant to cancer, and a single potato can last a colony up to 7 years
EgGyW TIL When they casted Robin Lively as Daniel LaRusso's love interest in 'Karate Kid III', producers were forced to take out the romance between her charatcer and Daniel because Robin was a minor at the time (16) and Ralph Macchio was 27 (although his character Daniel is 17).
awkJM TIL that opposite of good is not evil. Rather, good is the 'mean' between two evils. One of excess and another that of a deficit. Courage for instance is the mean between excess of rashness and a deficit of cowardice. Its a brilliant idea that alters how you look at right and wrong