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TIL there is a secret swimming pool in the Mojave Desert that anyone can use. There are no roads, trails or signs that lead to the pool.

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6Edxw TIL that Jet of Iada, a rescue dog, saved over 150 people from blitzed buildings during WWII. He died in 1949, after which a memorial to him was built near his grave. In 2016, a ceremony honoring Jet's birthday at the memorial was attended by his owner, Lilias Ward, who was 93 years old.
RZbQ TIL Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian named their daughter, Roseanne, after Johnny’s nickname for Vivian’s boobs: Rose and Anne
bPaE TIL that when faced with discrimination, Alexandre Dumas, writer of the Three Musketeers and a mulatto, would write: “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
pYD5Q TIL that there is one remaining glacier on the Indonesian side of Papua, due to its very high elevation despite being on the equator.
RyDj TIL a hero named Rick Rescorla, while in the process of saving 2,700 lives on 9/11, called his wife and said, “Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier. You made my life.”