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TIL Lincoln Logs were not designed to look like Abraham Lincoln's mythical cabin, but an earthquake-proof building in Japan. Also that they were created by John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright

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78ALM Today I learned someone paid $2M for a sealed 1985 NES Super Mario Bros.
m1NmO TIL about Coco de Mer, a super rare tree that produces solid-meat coconuts which have been highly valued as aphrodisiacs throughout the ages.
0wOJA TIL: Humanity invented nuclear weapons before we invented compound bows.
VBYap TIL the Pan Am 747 destroyed in the worst aviation accident 45 years ago at Tenerife was coincidentally also the first 747 to make a commercial flight, the first 747 to be hijacked, was named Clipper Victor, and the Captain was Victor Grubbs
J1BkQ TIL The first bridge to span the Mississippi River was built in 1855 near Minneapolis. The Father Louis Hennepin Suspension Bridge charged a toll. Price for pigs and sheep was 2 cents, humans paid 3 cents, horses cost 15 cents and carriages cost 25 cents.