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TIL someone skied down Mt. Everest

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kJ0Bg TIL John Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright, invented Lincoln Logs.
VBGMk TIL Joseph Goebbels seriously considered becoming a Catholic priest. He was aided in his earlier studies by a scholarship from the Albertus Magnus Society; Mangus was a German Dominican friar and Catholic Saint
dXaZ TIL the USSR put a rover on the moon in 1970, and was missing from 1971-2010
oRpRK TIL before becoming a renowned writer, Eudora Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s, documenting rural life in Mississippi. Her photography often reflected the same keen observation of people and their environments as her fiction.
YOkW TIL that Ulysses S. Grant’s parents did not attend his wedding because his fiancé’s family owned slaves.