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TIL That there is a museum in Kentucky that acts as a place of rest for dummies of ventriloquists that have died, it’s called the Vent Haven Museum.

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Ge6j TIL 80,000 Polish people are still trying to claim back their property since they had to abandon the area. The total value of the property is 2.7 million US dollars.
YpO4A TIL that half of the families who founded the city of Los Angeles in 1781 were of African descent.
WkveL TIL that South Dakota once sued 15 cats that they had seized on the grounds of interfering with a driver's visibility
KOrQB TIL that "potter's field," a term synonymous with mass graves, has a Biblical origin. It refers to an extremely clay-rich parcel of land in Jerusalem, purchased with the 30 pieces of silver which Judas returned to the chief priests. Useless for farming, the land was used to bury strangers.
nem6r TIL Juicy Fruit Gum, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Cream of Wheat, the moving walkway, and the movie theater were all introduced at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, among other inventions