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TIL That Down’s Syndrome, Downs Syndrome, and Down Syndrome are all correct ways of spelling

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8wbZ TIL that Dashrath Manjhi from India worked day and night for 22 years to cut through a mountain to create a path from his village to a local hospital.He reduced the distance from 75 km to 1 km .
Opb7 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson often peed in public, even during his presidency. One time, a gust of wind blew his urine onto the leg of one of his Secret Service agents. When the agent informed him he was being peed on, President Johnson replied, “I know. That’s my prerogative.”
Wk4J8 TIL that there exists a List of Confederate monuments and memorials that can be easily accessed by protesters to see which monuments fall in their area. This may not prove to too good for the Confederate monuments.
Y7noG TIL that herbs are the fresh part of the plant while spice is the dried root, stalk, seed or fruit of the plant and is almost always dried not fresh.
OGYYa TIL that Mexico banned any visual depiction of Elvis including television or movies for 11 years, by law, because of 2 riots at the Mexican premiers of 'King Creole' and 'GI Blues'. A stunt double had to be used to film exterior scenes shot in Mexico for 'Fun in Acapulco'.