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TIL Dale Earnhardt Jr. built a fully staffed, fully themed western town in his backyard just to throw parties in.

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Y7kwZ TIL in 1906, an irrigation company rerouted the Rio Grande, pushing the US town Rio Rico south of the river, causing it to be mistaken as Mexican. In 1972, the United States learned the land was US soil and officially ceded it to Mexico, allowing the local-born residents American citizenship.
jQRp TIL in the 1994 Caribbean Cup, due to an unusual variant of the golden goal rule where a goal in extra time was worth double points, Barbadoes scored an own goal deliberately as it was the only way for them to progress to the finals.
VBdNB TIL about Gouverneur Morris. He was a Founding Father who, among many other great achievements, wrote the entire Preamble to the Constitution — including the phrase “We the People of the United States” — and drafted the final version of the Constitution.
ANpDB TIL Austria's, Wiener Zeitung one of the oldest Published Daily Newspaper published it's last edition on 06/30/2023
Zldv TIL This Man Invented a Font to Help People With Dyslexia Read. and giving it out for free