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TIL the "world's most photographed tree," the Lone Cypress at Pebble Beach in California, is held up by wires and cement

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Xgr6 TIL A Chicago reporter once asked Frank Sinatra’s first wife what she saw in him, calling him “a 119 pound has-been.” She told him, “Well, I’ll tell you — nineteen pounds is cock.”
LGdm TIL that the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, both iconic landmarks of NYC, are actually federal property that is located within the border of New Jersey.
VJdp TIL that the vibrator was created to treat Hysteria because doctors were taking too long to manually masturbate women.
5ZgB TIL On Aug 21, 2017 there will be a complete solar eclipse that will travel the length of the US continent, from Oregon to South Carolina, in 90 minutes. This route is referred to as the Path of Totality and for 2 min and 41 seconds it will seem like night in the middle of the day.
nOk7 TIL The world’s first motion picture screening was held in December 1895. Within one year the earliest pornographic movie Le Coucher de la Mariée was released