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TIL that Costco sells caskets.

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D14oJ TIL, a small triangle in NYC about 27x25x27 inches was not accounted for in an eminent domain seizure in 1914. The owner installed a small mosaic which said "PROPERTY OF THE HESS ESTATE WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES." It is still there today.
Yp5ev TIL that a British man legally changed his name to James Bond and all its film titles up to Casino Royale as middle name. At 69 words, it was one of the longest recorded name in the world.
d8VZ8 TIL that the reason many evangelicals support Israel is because they believe that the Jewish people must control the country to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy and begin the end of times
Y91x TIL in the Roosevelt Roosevelt Room in The White House, Democratic administrations would traditionally hang a portrait of FDR, who was a Democrat, over the mantel, while Republican administrations would in turn hang a portrait of Teddy, a republican, there.
lV01 TIL that in 2002, a woman was denied public assistance because a DNA test showed that her children weren’t hers. An attorney helped her prove that she had absorbed her twin in the womb, thus giving her two sets of DNA, and that her unborn twin was possibly the biological mother of her children.