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TIL that artist James Turrell owns a two-mile-wide crater in the Arizona desert

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wL5QE TIL in 2020 The U.S. $20 bill will no longer feature President Andrew Jackson on the front, but the American Abolitionst and former slave Harriet Tubman
pY9Xe TIL that prior to human settlement, the only land-based mammal on Iceland were arctic foxes.
d8XBr TIL It is estimated that trillions of oysters once surrounded New York City, filtering bacteria and acting as a natural buffer against storm surges.
P1Ke TIL That a 456lb man underwent a clinically supervised fast for 382 days. Took multivitamins, lost 275lbs, crapped every 40-50 days.
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