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TIL: Yosemite has two main valleys, Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy, but HH is flooded by a dam/reservoir built in 1923. John Muir and other environmentalists fought to block the dam and said of the valley’s spectacular beauty: “no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.”

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