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TIL: The smallest parcel of property in NYC is 500 sq in

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6EnL7 TIL that in America, you have to pay a fee of $40 just to have skin to skin contact with your newborn baby.
oRM5r TIL that "Lucifer" originally referred to a personified aspect of the planet Venus, and only acquired its current religious connotation when the Hebrew Book of Isaiah equated the king of Babylon with said Venusian aspect
1Y1W TIL the original PayPal team went on to create so many successful companies (SpaceX, Tesla, YouTube, LinkedIn), that they are called the PayPal Mafia
W7eA8 TIL a pair of (otherwise) identical twins was conceived where one twin had Down syndrome and the other did not
loomV TIL that actor Joaquin Phoenix had an older brother named River, also an actor, who tragically died of a speedball overdose outside a Hollywood nightclub on Halloween 1993. He was only 23 years old.