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TIL there are an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish living in the U.S., with 30,000 of them thought to be in New York City. One Irish-born neighborhood in the Bronx is estimated at having 40% of its immigrants as undocumented.

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VBYrm TIL Breakfast as a early morning meal was only started when people began to go to work. Most humans never ate in the early morning prior. It is definitely not the "most important" meal of the day.
VB154 TIL: NY, NJ, MA, and MN addresses paranormal activity in their real estate disclosure laws. In NJ, a seller must inform the buyer that their property is haunted if asked and in New York, a home sale is rescinded if the seller creates and perpetuates a reputation that the home is haunted.
8eBQ4 TIL there are actually three species of bottlenose dolphin: the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (T. aduncus), and Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin (T. erebennus).
XPw8 TIL that Brazil participated in WW2, the only independent South American country to do so. The 25,000-troop Brazilian Expeditionary Force worked alongside the Allies, and managed to take 20,573 Axis prisoners, consisting of two generals, 892 officers and 19,679 other ranks.
jNXvv TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.