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TIL The headquarters and main Visitor Center at Rocky Mountain National Park (Part of the US National Park Service) was designed by Taliesin Associated Architects; Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural firm.

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epl9b TIL the Yellow River's infamous floods aren't the river simply overflowing its banks and returning to its original course. When uncontrolled, the river changes course frequently and wildly; some episodes see the river's mouth shift as far as 480 km.
PYvVO TIL that Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield have two species of spiders named after them - Filistata maguirei and Pritha garfieldi.
grBV4 TIL that people seeking a Mediterranean climate in the US can find it in: most of California, southwestern Oregon, part of Washington, and a portion of northeastern Nevada. This climate type is characterized by dry summers and warm, wet winters.
5Vy18 TIL Pope Pius XII once asserted in a speech that the Big Bang theory scientifically proved that the universe was created by a divine creator. Horrified, the physicist Georges Lemaître convinced the Pope not to make any further statements connecting his theory and theology.
oRPmY TIL there is a group that will finish a craft project left unfinished by a loved one who passed away or can no longer finish it due to disability.