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TIL the Parthenon in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was designed by architect William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.

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MVb7 TIL n 2008, hydroelectric power contributed to 98.5% of Norwegian power generation.
9YVR7 TIL Dan Rather, a reporter at the time, wanted to write a story about heroin and how it feels. He convinced police officers to administer a dose of heroin to himself.
gM8MW TIL of the phrase "Eddie would go" about the Hawaiian legend and lifeguard Eddie Aikau who was famous for surfing and saving people from big waves on the north shore. When no one would Eddie would go.
pMLZ TIL that in Gilbertese, the official language of the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, the word for dog (kamea) comes from the sound that the natives heard Europeans calling out to dogs (come here).
VMoKB TIL there is a supermassive void in space called the Boötes void and if the Milky Way had been in the center of the void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s. The void is 0.27% the width of the entire observable universe.