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TIL that New York City has 520 miles of coastline - more than the coastline of Miami, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles combined

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NX8GE TIL US Air Traffic Control towers are generally not considered "buildings" because they do not meet the criteria. This is mainly because a significant portion of their height is not occupied space (<50%) and fall under the category of "telecommunications/observation tower."
WkQ4 TIL “pie à la mode” was named by a professor who went around to restaurants ordering it by that name
VMngQ TIL Alzheimer's can't be "officially" diagnosed until after death. They have to confirm diagnosis with autopsy. So essentially they say a person has "dementia." The proteins involved still can't be detected without the autopsy. Today new methods can diagnose it with a 90% accuracy rate though
epMJ4 TIL Steven Spielberg beat James Cameron to the film rights of Jurassic Park by just a few hours. However after Cameron saw Spielberg's film, he realized that Spielberg was the right person for it because dinosaurs are for kids and he would've made "Aliens with dinosaurs."
jNMDE TIL a set of triplets was intentionally separated at birth and given to three sets of parents with intentionally varied socioeconomic backgrounds as part of an experiment. It was uncovered when two of the triplets happened to attend the same college in 1980