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TIL there’s a city in South Dakota called Gettysburg. Its slogan is “Where the Battle Wasn’t.”

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GYbdj TIL: Scotland's Duncraig station was grudgingly re-opened 11 years after it was closed because local train drivers simply refused to accept that it had been closed.
E1v6d TIL that a company called Open AI will democratize music production and enable basically anyone to become a music artist
jBAj TIL there is a high school in Arizona which uses “Redskins” as its mascot name. It is nearly 100% Navajo.
KjR9 TIL that nearly every sidewalk in Japan is fitted with tactile paving (the bumpy yellow stuff at the edge of subway platforms) to guide blind people
QJDEL TIL Discover Magazine was created when Time editor noticed that magazine sales jumped every time the cover featured a science topic and interpreted this as a considerable public interest in science