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TIL there is a 3,000 mile biking/hiking trail under construction that will connect Canada to the Florida Keys.

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Bwye TIL a woman had a heart attack on a plane, when the stewardess asked if there was a doctor on board, 15 stood up, they were on their way to a cardiology conference.
5yjP TIL that in 2013 alone more than 1,000 park rangers died trying to save African elephants from poachers.
8a8j4 TIL about the Bystander Effect, a psychological phenomena in which the more people present at an emergency, the less likely someone is to intervene
v1k7 TIL in 1692, an impoverished widow and mother of 8 named Susannah Martin fell victim to the Salem Witch Trials and was hanged. Her great-great-great-great Grandson would become the 21st President of the US, Chester A. Arthur.
RKRw TIL the Golden Gate Bridge isn’t named for its own coloring but rather for the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, which was named so even before the California gold rush.