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TIL Ellis Island was man made using the earth removed from under New York City while clearing space for the subway system.

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JvrB TIL: In Uxbridge, Massachusetts (36 miles southwest of Boston), the local police department has requested that people STOP POOPING ON TRAINS from overpasses.
e5D5 TIL after several overburdened hospitals turned away a 22yo woman’s 4 Ebola-stricken family members, the Liberian woman fashioned protective equipment out of plastic garbage bags and treated them herself for 2 weeks. Three of the Four family members survived.
J1YRk TIL The hippocampus of food-storing birds increases in size by up to 30% for a short period each year, so they can remember where they hid their food.
X0Gj6 TIL If you type a search term into Youtube and add either 'Before:YYYY' (Specified year) or 'After:YYYY' at the end, it will filter out any results that were uploaded before/after that year.
9wP5r TIL about Kintsugi. The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. It signifies the breaking of an object as a part of its past, and not something to be hidden or embarrassed about.