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TIL That the Pentagon has 2 times more bathrooms than needed because it was built during segregation.

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alao TIL that Buddha’s “hair” is not actually hair, but 108 snails that gave up their lives to cover his head so that he does not suffer a heatstroke while meditating under a scorching sun.
50L8 TIL: Between 255 and 320 “General Lee” cars were used and mostly destroyed during the filming of the Dukes of Hazard TV show.
yDdV TIL there is a theory that cats became domesticated because they adapted to hunting the vermin found around humans in towns and villages. They were tolerated by people and gradually diverged from their wild relatives through natural selection.
loZ1G TIL In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through President's Park, separating what would become Lafayette Square from the White House grounds. Lafayette Square has been used as a racetrack, a graveyard, a zoo, a slave market, an encampment for soldiers
4a55 TIL there are Target stores in Australia with the exact same logo, name, and branding that have no affiliation with the actual Minneapolis-based retailer all because Target didn’t trademark their name in Australia.