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TIL there is an abandoned subway station under City Hall in New York that no train stops at but that you can see in passing if you take the number 6 train

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jEaN TIL Yoga Jones, from Orange is the New Black, was the voice of Patti Mayonnaise.
XEM58 TIL that in 1935 the U.S. 23rd Bomb Squadron dropped twenty 600-pound bombs in the path of a volcano’s lava flow, thus saving the city of Hilo, Hawaii by diverting the lava away from the city.
6EZ67 TIL large cars are generally much safer than smaller ones, with mini car death rates being 5 times higher than very large SUVs. 15 of the 20 deadliest car models in 2017 were classified as either small or mini cars.
9wgmm TIL that Günther Burstyn ("the inventor of the first tank") might have been one of the few jews who had personal meeting with and was awarded by medal with Adolf Hitler
N7GJe TIL A tourist in Iceland was arrested when some local girls told him that it was tradition to run around naked on the Prime Minister's lawn.