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TIL New York City used eminent domain to tear down a landlord's building but accidentally left his family with a small triangle of land. The city asked the family to donate the land, but the family instead made a small plaque to commemorate the tiny chunk of land they still owned, the Hess Triangle.

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LER9 TIL in 1995 a Walmart store banned a shirt that said “Someday a Woman Will Be President” because it ran afoul of “the company’s family values.”
KOn1R TIL: In the 11th century, Spain was 80% Muslim.
R7nJj TIL about Bhopal, the 33 yr old site of the worst industrial accident in history. Never being addressed, the site is still actively killing people to this day.
7rXe7 TIL of the Zoo hypothesis. Life is common in the Universe, but extraterrestrial civilizations intentionally avoid communication with Earth to allow for natural evolution and sociocultural development, and to avoid interplanetary contamination, similarly to people observing animals at a zoo.
kOKRg TIL twins are becoming more common than ever. Around 1915, 1 in every 50 babies born was a twin, a rate of 2%. The rate increased to 3.3% by 2010 (1 in every 30 babies born is a twin). Scientists believe that older woman tend to have more twins and couples tend to start families later nowadays.