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TIL The Walter Knott Built a Brick-by-Brick Replica of Independence Hall - in Buena Park, CA at Knott’s Berry Farm

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kBpg TIL during WWII, Pacific island natives thought the misplaced cargo parachute-drops delivered to them were from their dead ancestors. So, after the war, they imitated soldiers they had seen, reenacting marches with wooden rifles and built airplanes of straw, in hopes that the airdrops would return.
XXV6 TIL that Ellen DeGeneres was cast as Dory in Finding Nemo when the director, Andrew Stanton, watched her ‘change the subject 5 times before finishing the sentence’ in conversation with his wife.
neoM9 TIL That the man tho says "Bye, Have a Beautiful Time" at the end of American Dad episodes was the former security officer at the office building where Family Guy and American Dad! were produced.
n8BB TIL: A nonprofit organization purchased a house across from the Westboro Baptist Church and painted it with colors of the gay pride flag as part of an equality campaign.
aPe9 TIL Senator John Kerry introduced the Federal Pension Forfeiture Act, also called the Duke Cunningham Act, to prevent lawmakers who have been guilty of official misconduct from collecting taxpayer funded pensions. The bill has never been passed.