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TIL there is a Post Office at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

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VRNm TIL in July 1984 President Ronald Reagan called ice cream “a nutritious and wholesome food” and established National Ice Cream Month.
PY6YO TIL that after the filming of "2001 a Space Odyssey", director Stanley Kubrick destroyed nearly all of the film's props so that they wouldn't be used for "lesser" science-fiction films in the future.
b6G4N TIL that the "Filioque controversy" was a major theological dispute between Eastern and Western Christianity over whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone or from the Father and the Son, contributing to the Great Schism.
0lYA TIL that the ingredient’s list on food items is actually ordered by weight
0AXM TIL a German mathematician spent a decade writing a 200 page manuscript about drawing a regular 65537 sided polygon with a compass and a straightedge