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TIL The Vessel in Hudson Yards Manhattan has been temporarily closed due to the large numbers of suicides at the top.

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wvko TIL The Walt Disney World Railroad has become one of the world’s busiest steam-powered railroads, with 3.7 million passengers served each year.
GY81 TIL that there is a website where you can map the fallout of a nuclear bomb anywhere in the world.
yQWll TIL that a stolen Degas painting worth 800,000 euros was found inside of a suitcase in a bus near Paris, during a random search by customs officials. It had been stolen in 2009. None of the passengers admitted to owning it and nobody was arrested.
X9rE TIL that in 1996, Rage Against the Machine played Saturday Night Live with host Steve Forbes. In protest of billionaires like Forbes, they hung two upside-down flags from their stage, against the wishes of staff. After a confrontation with SNL stagehands, they were kicked out before the second song.
VBOvp TIL while people often use the words ‘sign’ and ‘symptom’ interchangeably, from a Medical perspective a Symptom is something only the sufferer can perceive, like dizziness or pain while a Sign is something objective that a another person can perceive, like a visible rash or elevated temperature.