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TIL that all fourth graders in the US have free admission to national parks

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XEeB8 TIL the Elephant Man had to sleep sitting up. One night he tried to sleep lying down, to be 'like other people', and he died from a dislocated neck.
nWmnb TIL of Treasure Island, which is the world's largest natural island sitting in a lake (Lake Mindemoya) that sits on an island (Manitoulin Island) inside of a lake (Lake Huron).
4kBQX TIL that Chien-Shiung Wu, a Chinese-American physicist, made critical contributions to the Manhattan Project during World War 2. Her experiments disproving the law of conservation of parity in weak nuclear interactions, known as the "Wu experiment," earned her the nickname "the First Lady of Physics
8eROZ TIL that the civil rights act was not the first one in the U.S., but rather the second one, as the first was overturned by the supreme court in 1883.
woN61 TIL that in 1998, Vatican City had the highest murder rate in the world because of one double homicide