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TIL Nobody Died During Construction of the St. Louis Arch

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x6Dlb TIL that President Calvin Coolidge was adopted into the Sioux nation after his signing of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
x6Z47 TIL that embarrassed shoppers are significantly more likely to buy eco friendly products, but ONLY when shopping in public where others can see them. When shopping privately online, the effect completely disappears.
QJmOE TIL Denver Pyle (Uncle Jessie from the Dukes of Hazzard) made a fortune by buying oil wells cheaply that were thought to be end-of-life, and holding until later technology improved to allow extraction of more oil, and only continued acting for the fun of it
QJ66 TIL hog-nosed snakes will feign death by rolling on their back, and when rolled upright will roll back again as if to insist they’re really dead.
rND04 TIL the paragraph symbol "¶" is called the Pilcrow and was used like the letter K which was for "Kaput" and meant "head," as in the head of a new line.