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TIL The Photos in the Cheers Opening montage were taken at a bar in Craigville, Minnesota in 1937

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QNQXM TIL Octopuses have blue blood, three hearts and a doughnut-shaped brain
mx4aR TIL the Great Dismal Swamp (at the border of North Carolina and Virginia) held the largest "Maroon" colony (escaped slaves and their descendants) in the United States. Most managed to stay hidden despite militia invasions that aimed to capture them, and only left the swamp after the civil war.
BKxx TIL November 9th holds particular significance in German History; it is the anniversary of Robert Blum’s execution in 1848, the abdication of the Kaiser in 1918, the Munich Putsch of 1923, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
6EBbZ TIL about Pont du Gard, built by the Romans in 1st century AD to carry water. It is over 50km long and the whole aqueduct descends in height by only 12.6 m over its entire length. The aqueduct formerly carried an estimated 40,000 m3 of water a day to the fountains, baths and homes of Nîmes, France
QJyR9 TIL California repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms after members of the Black Panther Party started carrying guns