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TIL as of 2016 the City of New York is owed $16 Million in parking tickets unpaid by diplomats

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V0A0 TIL the same castle in Scotland was used as Winterfell and throughout Monty Python and the Holy Grail
l7ema TIL that Peter Jackson has a perfect replica of Bag End in his basement. You go down to the wine cellar and pull a bottle which opens a door, then there’s a long corridor into a mock torture chamber. Then you pull a book in a bookcase, the bookcase opens, and you walk into his perfect Bag End
78Gyp TIL that "fertility fraud" is legal in 39 out of the 50 states.
Br9Kd TIL that showman P.T. Barnum got his start by purchasing an enslaved woman named Joice Heth. She was in her 70’s but he claimed she was 161 years old and had been the nanny of George Washington. He exhibited her until her death, and then allowed the public to view her autopsy for 50 cents each
Y6rr TIL humans are unable to burp in zero gravity environments.