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TIL - Liberty Island and The Statue of Liberty are New York City owned, but physically reside entirely within New Jersey

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MlLa TIL Australia’s Channel 9 put watermarks across the middle of their video footage to prevent Channel 7 from using their material. It didn’t work.
1a7mW TIL of George Dantzig, who was late to class and solved two famously unsolved statistics problems because he thought they were homework.
dZAB TIL: Ryan Holle - Sentenced to life in prison for loaning his car to a friend who he thought was getting them fast food. Let’s help him become a free man again!
1XvW TIL During the casting of Kung Fu Hustle, Yuen Qiu who did not audition, was spotted, during her friend’s screen test smoking a cigarette with a sarcastic expression on her face, which won Yeun the part of The Landlady Of Pig Sty Alley.
5Gwr TIL of a woman whose skin grew around a toilet seat she had ben sitting on for 2 years. Her boyfriend gave her food and water until calling authorities to say there was “something wrong” with his girlfriend. Her legs had atrophied and she had to be removed with the seat.