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TIL for the past 56 years there’s been a prisoner rodeo that takes in Angola, LA.

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Brvlx TIL the land in Manhattan Beach, CA was formerly sand dunes. During the 1920s and 1930s, some excess sand was sold & shipped to Waikiki, Hawaii, to convert their reef and rock beach into a sandy beach. The sand was also used to build the Los Angeles Coliseum and portions of the Pacific Coast Highway
v1RKD TIL of Vin Mariani, a 19th century alcoholic drink that also contained cocaine. Queen Victoria, Thomas Edison, and Ulysses S. Grant all indulged in it, as well as two popes, one of whom appeared on a poster endorsing it.
1YO8 TIL that because Boeing expected supersonic passenger airliners to render the 747 and other subsonic airliners obsolete, they designed the 747 with a hump to allow the aircraft to be easily converted for cargo by installing a front cargo door below the flight deck.
x6777 TIL Peter the Great instituted a beard tax and forced people to shave who hadn’t paid
4knGo TIL that US Army working dogs (MWDs) “are one rank higher than that of their handler, so that they are accorded the respect due to them”