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TIL that the US-Canadian Border was known by the Plains Indians as "The Medicine Line" for it's seemingly magical ability to keep US troops from crossing it.

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5V7jR TIL Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown Winner, has more U.S. roads named for him than any other athlete. As of 2020, there are 263 roads named after the horse.
JYR5m TIL in 2017, after three consecutive years of the Scripps National Spelling Bee ending in a tie, the rules were changed. Contestants still on stage after the first day of the bee are now given a written test. If necessary to avoid a tie, the results of the test are used to determine the winner.
l7XNV TIL that Flight of the Bumblebee was originally intended to only be an interlude, or a song played in between acts, to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's play. Despite its unimportant part in the play, it still became one of the most recognizable classical songs due to its frequent usage in pop culture.
oBwl8 TIL McDonald`s when launched its first outlet in Moscow (USSR) in 1990, the city went mad, sold over 30000 burgers on the first day
R7eo7 Today I learned Nicolas Cage turned down the lead role of Shrek because he didn’t want to be an ogre