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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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JoAV TIL Norwegian TV producers teamed up with a man dying of cancer to find out if mediums can talk to the dead. He left a secret note with a message only he knows. Anyone can guess what it says, and they reveal it on the 5th of October
Oo8Gg TIL that the man who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was also a fighter pilot and an intelligence officer who helped Winston Churchill convince the American government to secretly fight Nazi Germany before they joined World War 2.
R7171 TIL that jalapeños are actually red when they’re ripe and they are spicer and sweeter than green ones.
9g4Q TIL of King Psamtik I, who conducted the first recorded experiment in psychology. He sought to prove that the innate language was Egyptian. He sent two infants to live secluded in care w/out ever hearing words. The conclusion: Phrygian. One babys first word was “becos,” Phrygia’s word for bread.
KOE4a TIL that Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric solar system (making the sun the center of the solar system instead of earth) from his death bed because he was aware of the controversy it would cause and the danger it proposed to him. He was right.