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TIL: Mount Rushmore was originally supposed to be the president’s from head to waist but due to lack of funding they stopped construction

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xVAM0 TIL that one acre of hemp can produce as much paper (including toilet paper!) as four acres of trees.
awMPb TIL that a fearless goat-herding dog called Odin refused to abandon his flock of goats during deadly California wildfires in 2017, while his owners ran to safety. Days later his family returned to their destroyed home and found him AND the goats still alive.
8a5KL TIL Stalin was one asked by his mother what he did and he said he was "Something like the Tsar." His mom responded that he should have been a priest
ADpwa TIL: It is a Japanese tradition to play Beethoven's 9th Symphony The Ode to Joy on New Year's Eve. A Japanese composer said, "People feel they have not completed the year spiritually until they hear it."
vby8 TIL that Jerry Seinfeld’s annual earning from Seinfeld in 2004 was $267 million. Between June 2008 & June 2009, Seinfeld earned $85 million AND as of May 2014, his estimated net worth is $820 million.