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oB4aK TIL Benjamin Franklin left the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $2,000 in his will, but they couldn't draw the full balance for 200 years. In 1990, the cities received $6.5 million.
8adyb TIL that Doane Robinson, the historian who came up with the idea for Mount Rushmore, initially didn't want it to feature former presidents. Robinson wanted sculptures of Lewis and Clark, Buffalo Bill Cody, Chief Red Cloud and other Sioux warriors but the sculptor refused to focus on regional heroes
0n0p TIL the only thing preventing an American from driving all the way to Argentina is a short strip of Jungle in Panama called the Darien Gap
JxLV TIL that 94% of the population of China live to the East of Heihe–Tengchong line
gMw1W TIL a bear in a state park got into campers’ coolers and used claws & teeth to puncture beer cans; Fish & Wildlife Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear tried a can of Busch, ignored the rest, then drank about 36 Rainier beers. They caught it a live trap baited with donuts, honey, open cans of Rainier.