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TIL that ginkgo trees are a symbol of hope and tenacity in Japan, as they were one of the few living things to survive the nuclear bomb at Hiroshima.

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p84VG TIL the main guy behind creating U.S. National Parks—John Muir—may have never had a deep love of nature had he not suffered a major eye injury while working as a mechanic: “I bade adieu to all my mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God”
epm8g TIL that Better Call Saul was nominated for 53 Primetime Emmys without winning a single one
xx4B TIL bowling originated as a religious ceremony. A stone was rolled at the Kegel, which represented the Heide (heathen), and those successfully toppling it were believed to have cleansed themselves of sin.
awMMM TIL after the Ku Klux Klan successfully fought to sponsor a portion of a freeway in Missouri in 2001, the state legislature fought back by renaming the road after civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
O51a TIL at age 47 Al Capone regressed to the mental capacity of a 12 year-old-child due to brain damage caused by the neurosyphilis and spent the last years of his life in his Florida mansion raving about Communists, foreigners, and Bugs Moran, who he was convinced was plotting to kill him.