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TIL Angels Landing is a 1,488 ft tall rock formation in Zion National Park in Utah. It is an unique fin-like mountain formation that juts out to the center of the main canyon. A trail cut into solid rock in 1926 leads to the top of Angels Landing and provides panoramic view of Zion Canyon.

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0lVv TIL that 91 of the 220 cast and crew of the movie The Conqueror, including John Wayne and Susan Hayward, died of cancer suspected to be caused by radioactivity in St. George, Utah, downwind of 1950s atomic bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site. The director shipped 60 tons of dirt back to Hollywood,too
7rKX TIL that there’s a muffin shop in San Francisco called Double or Muffin. You buy a muffin and then flip a coin. Get heads and you get another muffin for free. Tails and you just keep the muffin you bought. Double, or muffin.
5YW9D TIL that Julius Caesar almost started his career as a priest, which would have forbidden him from touching a horse, sleeping one night outside of Rome, or looking upon an army
P1OrO TIL of how thousands died from methanol poisoning via tainted industrial alcohol during U.S. Prohibition, thanks to the total absence of liquor regulation.
xV1W5 TIL Russia built a circular warship