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TIL there’s a 12ft tall replica of the Washington Monument under a manhole near the actual monument

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P10PE TIL roughly 115 million years ago in the time of dinosaurs, a little 5cm mushroom from Gondwana fell in a river, journeyed to a highly saline lagoon, sank down, down, thru the water. Was covered in layer upon layer of fine sediment. Becoming Gondwanagaricites magnificus, the oldest fossil mushroom
VPn8 TIL of Setsuo Ishino a Kamikaze pilot who slammed his aircraft into the U.S.S Missouri during W.W.2. During the clean up the ships crew recovered his body, sewed a Japanese Flag to be used as a casket and gave the 19 year old pilot a burial at sea with full military honors.
x6ev7 TIL that an early draft of the Declaration of Independence included a passage written by Thomas Jefferson condemning slavery, but was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia.
R7ob6 TIL Vanilla is produced from a species of orchid, it's the only fruit bearing orchid in the world.
kJVZ5 TIL Greyhound aka Dog racing is still around in the US with only two active tracks, both located in West Virginia.