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TIL the Times Square, while taking up just 0.1% of New York City’s total land area, creates 11% of the city’s economic output and 10% of its jobs.

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OGD6R TIL about Fet-Mets, the Swedish petrified miner. Found in 1719 in an underwater mine shaft, naturally mummified by Copper Sulfate. His former fiancée identified him as Fet-Mats Israelsson, who had disappeared 42 years earlier. The remains were put on display on and off again until 1930.
6Evvl TIL the guy who invented Vaseline used to go city to city dipping his hand in acid and burning it, showing previous wounds that had healed using his product
KORMJ TIL there's an R-rated director's cut of Galaxy Quest with raunchy language and sex scenes.
9PN7 TIL that Bhutan has a minister of happiness, whose goal is to be conscious and respect the pursuit of happiness nation wide. The UN was inspired and passed resolution 65/309, effectively putting ‘happiness’ on the global agenda.
4kdmg TIL that philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once took mescaline and imagined himself attacked by sea creatures. For years afterward, he suffered from intrusive thoughts about crabs and persistently thought crabs were following him around.