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TIL that Oregon Trail was created by an 8th grade Minnesota schoolteacher

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1aeVW TIL that the poem to remember the days of the month "Thirty days has September", taught to children to this day, is actually at least a 600-year-old poem, with the earliest known published forms written in Old English and Latin, from 1425 and 1488, respectively.
Ype7G TIL 90% of Korean boys have to go to the Army before they hit 25
oRJrL TIL there is a species of beetle with eyelashes. It's called Rhipiceridae and eats cicada nymphs for a living.
699w TIL that the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle nebula were most likely destroyed by a supernova 6,000 years ago, the blast and destruction of which we won’t see for another 1,000 years
DQN7g TIL Benedict Arnold’s crypt was repurposed into a kindergarten classroom and his headstone is a wall decoration.