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TIL of the Mid-Atlantic accent, a combination of American and British English that no one "actually spoke...unless educated to do so", a fashion from the Northeastern US. Christopher Plummer, Katharine Hepburn, FDR, Julia Child, Gore Vidal, Sideshow Bob, and Mark Hamill's Joker are noted examples.

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4p8X TIL - The location of Tony Stark’s mansion on the Pacific Ocean is the same cliff from Planet of the Apes where the statue of liberty was sticking out of the sand. Point Dume
kPLW TIL in the early 1900s a transexual man (born as a woman) was able to pass for a man, enabling him to vote, marry two successive wives, adopt a daughter and successfully stand for political office in NYC.
awj0A TIL that the slowest car to ever lap the Nurburgring was a Trabant P50 which had a time of 16 minutes and 1 second.
WJKA TIL there is an extremely effective, reversible, cheap, simple, and long-term birth control procedure for men in phase III clinical trials in India
Y7gQP TIL the streets were accidentally paved with gold in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Australia in the late 19th century. In this mining town, rocks containing gold-bearing tellurites were misidentified as pyrite and discarded. Some of these discarded rocks were used as paving stones.