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TIL King Tammany Day was once a hugely popular holiday in America, even celebrated by George Washington and the Continental Army at Valley Forge

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E1Blp TIL the disembodied hand of the Statue of Liberty sat in Madison Square for 6 years to raise money for the rest of the statue
ADdWo TIL All the gold ever mined would make a cube 71 ft on each side (21.7 m)
4XbnJ TIL in 1979, the movie "The China Syndrome" - about a nuclear reactor failure in Pennsylvania - premiered 12 days before an actual nuclear reactor failure in Pennsylvania called the Three Mile Island accident.
QN7LM TIL that Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair. He supposedly drafted the Declaration of Independence while sitting in his own creation, making it one of the first recorded uses of a swivel chair in history.
EKep TIL at the age of 17, Richard Dean Anderson rode his bike 5,641 miles from Minnesota to Alaska. Starting out with friends, he travelled the last 33 days alone.