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TIL Mount Rushmore has a hidden hallway with granite stairs that was designed to hold American relics and documents

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mx4jo TIL Honeybees, despite having the brain size of a sesame seed, can count up to four and can understand the concept of zero.
XkG8 TIL Coldplay turned down multi-million dollar contracts from Gatorade, Diet Coke, and Gap, who wanted to use their songs. Their response: “We wouldn’t be able to live with ourselves if we sold the songs’ meanings like that.”
1a7NX TIL in April 2013, Charlie Sheen claimed that in 2011 he had laughed so hard while watching a Chappelle's Show episode that he experienced a ruptured hernia, and was rushed to a hospital.
WkYx9 TIL:Toast falling off a plate lands butter-side down almost 2/3 of the time.It’s nothing to do with one side being buttered, its that as the toast goes over the edge of the plate, it starts to rotate, but the spin-rate is too slow to bring the butter-side up again by the time it hits the floor
ZEbD TIL it is common for elephants to live with and develop relationships with their grandmothers.