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TIL in the 90s an Indian Transcendental Meditation guru founded a planned city near Fairfield Iowa called the Maharishi Vedic City. The city uses a special type of architecture which it claims promotes happiness and peace.

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ANpBn TIL that there is a "sin tax" on certain goods deemed harmful to society and individuals such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs, candies, soft drinks, fast foods, coffee, sugar and gambling - used to increase prices in an effort to lower demand.
0d4Qv TIL that the village of Westward Ho! is the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark in its name
e0xLJ TIL One of the reasons the Great Wall of China still stands after so many years, is due to a secret binding agent in the mortar: sticky rice.
wLP47 TIL - Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society and dedicated the last 18 years of his life to large-scale philanthropy giving away 90 percent of his fortune, $350 million ($65 billion in 2019 dollars) to charities, foundations, and universities
Nj6M TIL Steve Irwin was offered a state funeral following his death, however his dad rejected the government’s offer citing that Steve would have wanted to have been remembered as “an ordinary bloke”.