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TIL New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with 800 languages spoken

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W7Qk8 TIL a 2016 study by the University of Michigan found that pizza was the most addictive food, followed by chocolate and potato chips. The least addictive foods were cucumbers, carrots, and beans which were even less addictive than water.
epNdE TIL The Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) is one of the most famous symbols of Venice. Known today as the bridge of love, it was originally the bridge that prisoners crossed before being locked up in the Venetian prisons and from which, sighing, they could see the sunlight for the last time.
vP4n4 TIL that Marilyn Monroe was a method actor. She studied with the method acting pioneer Lee Strasberg, who also taught actors such as Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Dean.
yQoWe TIL that double stuffed Oreos are only stuffed 1.86x more than regular Oreos.
W7QVB TIL of socialite Ida Wood: in 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later