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TIL Keystone, South Dakota (pop. 337) had its origins in 1883 as a mining town, and has since transformed itself into a resort town, serving the needs of the millions of visitors to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial

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LQAK0 TIL that the Quileute werewolf group in 'Twilight ' are a real tribe that live near the filming, Forks, Washington. However, the Quileute tribal members expressed dislike towards to the way that their culture was being represented, as they did not have any myths concerning werewolves.
br8Q TIL there was a mental diagnosis called “Drapetomania” for black slaves who had the urge to escape slavery.
Zpg5v TIL that France maintains possessions of several islands less than 20 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon
R7BJ8 TIL underwater construction can be achieved by creating dry work areas underwater inside of an enclosed space called a cofferdam
LNOd TIL in 1958 Ford designed the Nucleon, a car powered by a uranium fission steam engine. It was the inspiration for the “Atomic V8” engines in the Fallout games.