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TIL the Washington Monument contains a piece of the Parthenon, sent by Greece as a memorial stone during the Monument's construction.

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X0mPj TIL a 2018 study concluded the mortality risk for characters in Game of Thrones was high after finding that more than half of the important characters died (186/330 - 56.4%) by the end of Season 7. The chances of a character dying within the first hour that they appear was about 14%.
wLO08 TIL That President George Washington personally led 12,950 men to western Pennsylvania to quell the whiskey rebellion and assert the power of the federal government, one of only 2 sitting presidents to lead an army while in office, the rebels disbanded and fled.
aanL TIL: When you speak inside your mind small muscles in your throat mimic the formation of each word, and NASA is working on a machine that would detect these muscle movements and transcribe them to words.
jNwMv TIL About Blue Lake Rhino Cave in Washington State that is the 14.5 million year old cast of an early Rhino ancestor created when basalt lava slowly covered the corpse floating upside down in an ancient lake found 300 feet up the side of a cliff.
7rZLZ TIL "Phil McNamara was able to capture something not a lot of people get to see: the exact moment an active volcano blows its top, and the attendant shockwave. Filming off the coast of Papa New Guinea, McNamara filmed the start of the eruption of Mount Tavurvur volcano on August 29th, 2014." [Video]