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TIL that New York City has started replacing the swords stolen from public statues decades ago as crime has gone down and the city has become a “safer place.”

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6EwKW TIL: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, designed by the “Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons,” so isolated prisoners that many went insane. (The 1829 castle-like complex did have better comforts than period prisons --like dependable heat. Shut: 1971, ruin-park since '94.)
R7gl TIL that the chainsaw was invented by doctors to perform surgery.
WkkO4 TIL: T.G.I. Fridays restaurant opened in 1965 in New York and it started out as a singles bar.
Y4W7 TIL “Her Majesty” by the Beatles is 0:23 long and is one of the first hidden tracks.
Epx0 TIL that it became illegal to sell ice-cream sodas on a Sunday in the American town of Evanston during the late 19th century. To get around the problem some traders replaced the soda with syrup and called the dessert an “Ice Cream Sunday.” Today, we cherish them as “Sundaes”.