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TIL that there used to be a Middle Eastern neighborhood in Manhattan from the 1880s to the 1940s. The neighborhood was demolished to make way for the entrance ramps to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and later the original World Trade Center

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Xlbj TIL Royal Marine Mark Gray saved 20,000 lives by draining the water from a dam before it was blown up by Serbian militia
lDBV TIL a Virginia Judge left his bench, removed his robe, bit off a piece of a criminal defendant’s nose, and spat it on the floor while court was in session.
W70A TIL that there is a country that only exist on the Internet, and anyone can become a citizen!
nVyG TIL the main religious text of Sikhism, called the Guru Granth Sahib, is written in a Esperanto-like language constructed from main North Indian languages, Persian and Arabic. Its purpose to connect to a broader audience, and also to have an extensive vocabulary for oral poetry.
dWLK TIL that the real Illuminati, founded in the late 1700s, were formed to oppose “superstition [and] prejudice,” and supported “women’s education and gender equality”