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TIL Liberty Island — which the Statue of Liberty stands on — belongs to New York, but the waters around it belong to New Jersey.

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8a01G TIL Zimbabwe has what many experts believe to be the largest diamond field in the world. With extraction of over 17Million carats. This mining region is size of the German capital Berlin, these diamonds are sent to the EU to be refined.
dW9r TIL that most of the Middle East’s borders were drawn up by a pair of English and French aristocrats in 1916.
m1wOR TIL that while each brain hemisphere controls half the body, both hemispheres see from both eyes, but each only sees the left or right half of each image from each eye
bnD7 TIL that every year in the greek town of Vrontados, two rival church congregations perform a “Rocket War” by firing tens of thousands of home-made rockets across town, with the objective of hitting the bell tower of the church of the other side.
rRGWw TIL that Gay Penguins will steal babies to raise from Straight Penguins. Some will even leave rocks as decoy eggs.