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TIL - A family has been carving a 64 story Crazy Horse memorial out of a South Dakota mountain for 70 years

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XpNE TIL Mary Anderson, inventor of the modern windscreen wiper was told “we do not consider it to be of such commercial value as would warrant our undertaking its sale”, when she tried to sell her patent. Many company’s went on to implement her device after her patent was expired.
4kenN TIL the current head of the Tokugawa samurai family, which ruled Japan for over 250 years as an isolationist shogunate, grew up in the US and married a Vietnamese woman
4yvJ TIL Volkswagen paid a $120k fine to the EPA in 1973 for using “defeat devices” to disable pollution-control systems
6ER4J TIL about the Double contrabass flute which is one of the lowest pitched metal flutes and the biggest with up to 22 feet of tubing and primarily is only found in flute choirs
ANNrx TIL The Spotted Lanternfly causes $550 million in yearly damages to the state of Pennsylvania