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TIL the East River (east side of Manhattan, Brookly Bridge crosses it) isn't a fork of the Hudson, but instead a tidal strait.

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yQ0Zp TIL An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device until she was able to have a heart transplant. She essentially lived for 118 days without a heart, with her circulation supported only by the two blood pumps.
4kmnR TIL about Christine Granville, a WW2 spy and Polish aristocrat - Winston Churchill would declare her as his favourite spy. She talks her way into service with M16, gets captured by Germans twice but escapes, and rescues her lover from execution by firing squad.
69All TIL, Aleksandr Komin kept 6 people as prisoners in a 30-feet deep bunker under his garage forcing them to work 16 hours a day. When two women tried to escape, they were caught and Aleksandr tattooed "РАБ"(Russian for "slave") on their faces.
rNeLx TIL on 4/20/1989, 37-yr old Patricia Bernadette Meehan of Pittsburgh, PA disappeared after a high speed car accident outside the town of Circle, MT. Unusually, over 5000 alleged sightings of Meehan have since been recorded. The case remains open.
Me05A TIL that People Who Frequently Swear Are Less Likely To Lie or Deceive According Journal Published in Social Psychological and Personality Science