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TIL that a tomb was built inside the U.S. Capitol for George Washington’s remains. The tomb is still accessible but not open to the public. He was instead buried at Mount Vernon by the wish of his will.

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e0xjg TIL that the founder of the modern frozen food industry, Clarence Birdseye, was inspired after he was taught by the Inuit, indigenous people of Canada, how to ice fish under very thick ice. In -40 °C weather, he discovered that the fish he caught froze almost instantly, and when thawed, tasted fresh
R1E7 TIL that the AIDS epidemic in Atlanta, GA is as bad as a third world country
wBvP TIL that there are 29 states calling for a Constitutional Convention to impose a balanced budget on the federal government; 34 are needed to force the convention.
Edl0 TIL that with all its renewable energy, on a sunny and windy day, Germany doesn’t need to run its conventional power plants
Xg68 TIL that in 1961, Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first American in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”