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TIL that Marble Hill actually was part of Manhattan until they built a canal where the current Harlem River is. I also learned that St. Stephen's Church used to overlook the original estuary, Spuyten Duyvil Creek.

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xVOxw TIL the Lake Titicaca frog (Telmatobius culeus) does push-ups to help its saggy skin absorb the most oxygen possible from it's high altitude lake habitat
BreMk TIL Houston police officers are no longer allowed to use Whataburger number tents as crime scene markers
b96dQ TIL in a 1988 episode of "Alvin and the Chipmunks" called "The Wall", the Chipmunks play a concert at the Berlin Wall and see it crumbling down, only to awaken from a dream and say, "It was just a dream, but it doesn't have to be." 11 months later, the Berlin Wall came down in real life.
1Ybd TIL that in 1982, Joe Strummer (frontman of The Clash) was pressured by his manager to go into hiding in Texas as a publicity stunt for the band’s upcoming tour. Strummer instead decided to genuinely disappear to France for months, where he “dicked around” and ran the Paris Marathon.
kEKm TIL Apollo Mission astronauts have nearly five times higher mortality from cardiovascular disease than other astronauts due to exposure to deep-space radiation.