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TIL that there were plans to have George Washington be buried in a tomb beneath the rotunda of the U.S. capitol building which would have a glass floor to allow the public to view the tomb.

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ZpaE4 TIL in 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain
QNRyd TIL during the Irish Famine (1845-1849), under the ruling British Government, huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation.
e0LlE TIL: The White throated Rail, went extinct due to invasive predator introduction, then later re-evolved from a different related species.