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TIL that the first central bank in the US was called the Bank of North America and Wells Fargo is its current successor through several mergers after it was privatized.

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WkvnA TIL that the Great Falls of the Potomac northwest of Washington, DC is the steepest falls in the eastern US and are along the Atlantic Fall Line of the Appalachian Mountains, dropping 76 feet in under 1 mile.
PYN1g TIL of Elasmotherium: an extinct giant hairy rhino that looked like Mudhorn from Mandalorian
gMjJ8 TIL of the Treaty of Canandaigua between the USA and the Iroquois in 1794. Article 6, requiring the US to provide $4500 in goods every year, is honored to this day, but Article 2, protecting the land of the Oneida, was mostly ignored and their land fell from 6,000,000 acres to just 32 acres in 1920.
oBNaK TIL that the elephant's closest relative besides manatees and dugongs is a rabbit-sized mammal called the hyrax
JYkA4 TIL Koko, the signing Gorilla had a partner. Ndume was loaned to Koko's owners on condition that he be returned to the zoo upon Koko's death, to start a new family, which they refused to do, claiming that Ndume(the Gorilla) overheard the discussion about him moving, and became upset about it