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TIL Mount Rushmore was created by sculptor Gutzon Borglum. Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, & Lincoln were chosen to represent America's birth, growth, development, & preservation respectively. Mount Rushmore attracts more than 2 million visitors annually.

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GY1WJ TIL Ed Sheeran’s childhood friend was struggling financially and asked him to put one of her songs on his then-nearly completed album “X”. Instead they wrote “Thinking Out Loud” together which was released as a single and hit #1. She’ll never have to worry about money again.
9VeQ TIL that Alan Turing dabbled in embryology, proposing the existence of molecules called morphogens that diffuse within embryos and control how they develop; the people who confirmed his proposal won a Nobel Prize.
RRG1 TIL that it took Rubik a month to solve his own creation (“Who Created the Rubik’s Cube?” Paragraph 3)
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wngE TIL that the real Top Gun school gives a $5 fine to anyone in the staff that quotes the movie