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TIL the 1.5-mile-long, 22-foot-high, 4.5-foot-wide granite wall, that currently surrounds the Minnesota State Correctional Facility in St.Cloud, Minnesota, USA is the second largest wall built using inmate labor in the world. The Great Wall of China is the first.

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L9Bp TIL Chuck Berry’s classic song “Johnny B. Goode” is included on the Golden Record of both Voyager space probes.
nWyyP TIL that Michael Crichton, the author of “Jurassic Park” (1990), was a workaholic who followed what he called "a structured approach" of ritualistic self-denial, where, while writing a book, he’d rise increasingly early each day. At one point, Crichton would go to bed at 10 PM and wake up at 2 AM.
D1YvD TIL that a study has shown that Male Robins Make the Best Bird Husbands as they possess the capability to guess what their wives want to eat, whether or not they saw what the females ate last, they can still get exactly what their partner wished for. They are also Monogamous.
16RNd TIL the A's baseball team used to have sheep grazing in the outfield
5pER TIL that Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, was present at three out of four U.S. presidential assassinations. When asked to attend a presidential function he declined by stating “there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present.”