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TIL John Adams wrote in the MA Constitution that “ it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences”

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7rB5X TIL There is a hole in the center of the earth in the middle of Antarctica. There is a whole race of advanced humans with advanced technology that live down there.
VBdlQ TIL that Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim is a tribute to the Dune franchise
9YaNG TIL James Taylor's song "Country Road" was inspired by Somerset Street in Belmont, Massachusetts, a wooded road running adjacent to the land owned by McLean Hospital where Taylor had committed himself in 1965 to receive treatment for depression
Y7X1B TIL Douglas fir trees aren't firs
l7Jb1 TIL there is a call to make Nikola Tesla a Saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church