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TIL Mount Rushmore was supposed to be a sculpture of each president from head to waist but it ran out of funding so only the heads were finished

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9wrwQ TIL That 2.8 billion years from now, all remaining Earth life will become extinct
b60g7 TIL about the Oklo Mine, site of the only known naturally occurring nuclear reactor on Earth.
LgNV TIL a 12 year old boy was tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 years in prison after following a 15 year old boy and helping him kill the 15 year old’s stepdad.
LkP7v TIL about John Yudkin, a scientist who's reputation was ruined and was ridiculed for his belief that sugar not fat was responsible for the health crisis in America. Years later research is starting to support his findings.
6lnQ TIL Claudette Colvin actually refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks, but she was 15 and pregnant so the NAACP didn’t want to publicize her.