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TIL that minus a few bridges, the majority of Bridges in NYC were built in the 19th century or the early part of the 20th century with the oldest being built 140 years ago.

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4jWo TIL that the more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to make assumptions that aren’t based on facts and logical thinking.
Zvoo TIL that Julia Child loved In-N-Out so much that she knew every location of the restaurant between Santa Barbara and San Francisco. She also had the burgers delivered to her during a hospital stay.
l79o5 TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.
69Lkw TIL Los Angeles has a metro system
WkEr8 TIL Hernando Colón, the son of Christopher Columbus, started a universal library in Seville, Spain. He really did try to collect everything, and catalogued books, manuscripts, pamphlets and tavern posters, from weighty tomes to throwaway ephemera.