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TIL that President Jefferson partly organized the Lewis & Clark expedition because he believed that there were still mastodons wandering wild in the Western US.

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rNYgo TIL that the background music used in the Apple iPhone 14 Pro ad on youtube is titled "He Who Runs With The Flock Inevitably Follows Asses ".
j6kmE TIL that the movie Kingdom of Heaven Directors Cut was so long (3 hours and 14 minutes), that it had an overture at the beginning and a 3 min intermission in the middle of the film where you watch a photo of Balian sitting with his fellow Crusaders after a battle to a special musical score
Y7BAB TIL Queen Elizabeth I required 600 horse carts to carry everything she needed for her summer excursions to the countryside. She’d stay with the local Nobles, but if their castle was too small, the nobility would get kicked out to make room. Of course you wouldn’t turn her down, or expect payment.
b9DQZ TIL: Project Corona, one of the earliest reconnaissance satellites, sent film back to earth via recovery vehicles that would be caught in mid air by an Air Force C-119. The recovery vehicles were designed to sink in the ocean after two days should the plane fail to catch it.
4BY6 TIL that Bernie Tiede was released from his life sentence in prison in May on the condition that he stay in Austin, TX and live with the filmmaker of ‘Bernie’.