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TIL that the Statue of Liberty was certified as a lighthouse until 1902, and--if it hadn't been decertified--would be the tallest coastal lighthouse in the world today.

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J18Pm TIL there is a town in Norway where it is illegal to die as bodies cannot decompose due to cold temperatures
JYMnV TIL that Bill Gates didn't create MS-DOS from scratch. He just bought Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Operating system) for $75,000. Q-DOS was a rip off of CP/M, the standard OS of most PCs in early 1980s. The virtual clone of Q-DOS, MS-DOS was licensed to IBM in a historic deal and the rest is history.
m1NKx TIL the reason why the Declaration of Independence is so faded isn't solely its age. In the 1800s, it was placed in front of a large window in the US Patent Office for 35 years.
ZpDLB TIL about Nanuqsaurus ("polar bear lizard") a relative of T-rex that lived in the arctic.
vlL7 TIL: The CDC recommends that Ebola survivors should use condoms indefinitely.