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

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16pn8 TIL Paro international airport is one of the hardest airports to land it, and only 8 pilots are certified to land there.
ANYK4 TIL The United States and the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 which promised the Cherokee people a delegate to the House of Representatives
Egad7 TIL the left rear foot is considered the luckiest Rabbit Foot amulet, with hoodoo ‘rules’ as to its power of good fortune.
ymWV TIL The reason pirates wore eye-patches was so that one eye was always used to the dark, making it easier to see quickly when going below deck.
nWEWB TIL that ceiling fans have a winter and summer mode.