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TIL that Cooperstown, NY is named for the father of James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote the Leatherstocking Tales (including Last of the Mohicans). It's more famous for being the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, but was placed in Cooperstown based on a now discredited myth.

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0d07A TIL Brooklyn's Cobble Hill Tunnel is the oldest subway tunnel in the world. It was closed in 1861 and forgotten for over 100 years. In 1980 it was rediscovered by a local college dropout named Bob Diamond.
JYJN8 TIL Out of the near 5.9 Million small businesses in the USA , 90% of them are under 20 people
grAD TIL all aircraft in the Israeli airline El-Al are equipped with flares to protect against missiles.
1arXd TIL during the opening of 1936 Olympic,Adolph Hitler made a speech which was broadcasted in 41 countries.Due to the high frequency of the signal,it escaped the earth ionosphere.Carl Sagan wrote his book Contact,on alien-human encounter based on this platform that alien heard Hitlers voice first.
eppd4 TIL ‘Operation bodyguard’ was used in WW2, a combination of inflatable tanks, phoney insignias, fake radio transmissions, dummy paratroopers and even feeding faulty information to mislead spies. These efforts helped delude Germany into believing Calais would be the site of the D-day landings.