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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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x69AB TIL In 1990, Muhammad Ali defied then-President George H.W. Bush's wishes by traveling to Iraq, where he secured the release of 15 American citizen hostages held in Iraqi prisons and brought them home. ( President Bush would eventually award him the Medal Of Freedom.)
b6BWp TIL: Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's bones used in Brazil forensic medicine courses
eB1E TIL the inventor of cell phone batteries, LCD-screens and rewritable CDs, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, was self taught and without formal college training.
GbJj TIL that prison phone calls are really expensive. The companies who charge for the calls make $1.2 billion per year.
v1xer TIL that a lady fell from an airplane flying at 10,000+ meters (about 33,000 ft) and survived.