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TIL passerbyers isn't a word

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OGEY6 TIL Mount Rushmore construction was completed on Halloween (October 31, 1941)
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oBY9Y TIL that francium has never been seen with the naked eye because a sample large enough to be viewed would generate so much heat that would vaporize itself almost instantly.