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TIL that the US supreme court building has a statue of Prophet Muhammad, In 1997 Chief Justice William Rehnquist rejected the Muslim council's request to remove the statue saying it was intended only to recognize him as an important figure in the history of law and not as a form of idol worship

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Np9M TIL that prairie dogs construct their burrows in such a way that wind blowing parallel to the ground induces flow of air through the burrows–renewing oxygen supplies underground.
XEdxX TIL That if you were a head of household who was living in Texas on March 2nd, 1836, you got given, for free, 4,605 acres of land. Some restrictions apply.
gMW6A TIL there are myths of an advanced civilization of red haired people who disappeared after the last ice age (5,000+ years ago)
e8Z4 TIL that before the Eraser was invented people used soft bread crumbs to erase pencil marks
8W1V TIL a journalist suffered a massive stroke, woke up completely paralyzed except for his left eyelid, and wrote his memoir over the course of ten months just by blinking. He died 10 days after the book was released to fantastic reviews.