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TIL the US government in the 1930's tried to make a canal called the "Cross-Florida Barge Canal" that cut through the Florida peninsula to create a shortcut from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. It was going to have a series of locks like the Panama Canal. It was shut down by Nixon.

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x7W7 TIL that George Washington was the first head of state to be called “President”, but back then the term was equivalent to “foreman” or “overseer”. The senate objected because they didn’t think he would be taken seriously with “a silly little title like President of the United States of America.”
yQXb8 TIL in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the famous detuned “flashbulb” sound, which is actually a tuning fork scraping a piano string.
l7LP1 TIL of the Red Ghost, a legend about a demonic figure roaming Arizona in the late 1800's and once killed a woman. It turned out to be a feral camel with the decaying corpse of a man strapped on its back, likely a result of Jefferson Davis' attempt to create a camel division in the US army
v1GLx TIL an 87-year old Grandmother didn't want to sell nor leave her 100-year old house so MLB baseball team owner could build a parking structure. The team owner offered to buy her a new house anywhere & financially support her for the rest of her life; which ended up being 6 weeks.
l7Gj5 TIL a Cutting Horse is a type of horse that is bred and trained to separate a single cow from a herd of cattle. Some cutting breeds have evolved a 'cow sense', an innate ability to read and predict a cow's movements