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TIL The Statue of Liberty is geographically located in New Jersey, not New York

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8ak8L TIL Modern body armor was created by a pizza delivery guy who was wounded in the head and leg after a pizza delivery turned into a shootout. Richard Davis, a former US Marine, developed the bulletproof vest using Kevlar. During testing, he shot himself in the chest 190 times.
jANN TIL since Chinese isn’t alphabetized, looking up words is so tricky that China doesn’t have spelling bees, they have contests just to find words in the dictionary
ADyr7 TIL world's last Stone Age society exists on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, and they are identified for protecting their island upon all visitors. Because they have been living in isolation for 60,000 years, there is genetically a direct path between them and their pre-Neolithic ancestor
E1k4V TIL that if your fingers are severed and reattached, or undergo nerve damage, they will no longer shrivel in water.
ErD0 TIL that over the last 35 years, a portion of the scientific community involved in researching domestic violence has been actively concealing and misrepresenting the evidence for “Gender Symmetry”: the fact that women and men perpetrate partner violence at comparable rates [PDF]