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

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WOg9 TIL ‘goodbye’ is a misspelled contraction of 'God be with ye’
Bg06y TIL that there are two graves embedded in Runway 10 of Georgia's Savanah Airport.
Rre8 TIL the original score for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was written by Alex North, but Kubrick didn’t like it and switched at the last minute. No one told North, who showed up at the film’s premiere only to be devastated when none of his music was used.
ADLDa TIL Tomomasa Nakagawa, a former doctor sentenced to death in 2011 for his involvement in VX and sarin attacks, including the 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo’s subway system, determined that Kim Jong Nam was attacked with VX before the announcement from Malaysian authorities.
nWjro TIL that in 2003, scientists "resurrected" an extinct species of Ibex, bringing back one living specimen, only for it go extinct again seven minutes later when the specimen died of a lung defect