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TIL - Liberty Island, while part of New York State, is actually completely surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, NJ.

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0wvNN TIL in Lord of the Rings The Two Towers the majority of the Rohirrim(Riders of Rohan) were actually female stunt riders with fake beards/make up.(30:24)
8X9P TIL 2013 was the first year without a Loch Ness Monster sighting since 1933
NJA1 TIL The concept of using a card for purchases was described in 1887 by Edward Bellamy in his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy used the term credit card eleven times in this novel, although this referred to a card for spending a citizen’s dividend from the government, rather than borrowing.
j6eGX TIL that the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes you free") above the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp is no longer the original, which has been kept in a museum since it was stolen and found cut into pieces in 2009.
9YQAm TIL the first Soviet probe sent to Mars' moon Phobos failed due to user error. While the probe was still on its way to Mars, an impatient technician who didn't want to wait for his code to be proofread unintentionally sent a command to the probe to shut down and there was no way to turn it back on.