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TIL Yellowstone was the world’s first national park, and sometimes called “America’s best idea.”

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W71DA TIL that Angelina Jolie is both Jon Voight’s daughter in real life and in the Tomb Raider movies
b6va4 TIL about the Camondo Stairs in Istanbul, Turkey which were built by Abraham Salomon Camondo in the 1870s. The stairway was constructed as a shortcut for his children to go to school and its hexagonal shape was designed to prevent his children from falling further down the steps in case they fell.
jgkN TIL Notorious English pirate captain Benjamin Hornigold (1680–1719) once attacked a ship off the coast of Honduras just to replace his crew’s hats (they had drunkenly lost them the night before)
R7rRl TIL In 1880, Felix Adler, the philosopher who would later lead America’s first national campaign against child labor, proposed a 100% tax rate on income above the point “when a certain high and abundant sum has been reached, amply sufficient for all the comforts and true refinements of life”.
0p5 TIL there is a plant that grows naturally near poison ivy that “cures” poison ivy rash before it starts.