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TIL In the 1920s, architect Robert Hugman envisioned San Antonio would have tour boats like the gondolas of Venice with Spanish design and a shopping district called Romula. After construction began in 1939, the River Walk only became commercially successful in 1970

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9wN77 TIL Before the bison were slaughtered, the native people living in the plains were among world tallest in the world. After, in just one generation, the height of Native American people who depended on bison dropped by over an inch.
4XXXa TIL that sitting on top of flagpoles was a fad in the mid to late 1920s, where people would compete to see who could break records for endurance sitting. The world record is 51 days, 20 hours.
oBN67 TIL the origin of the phrase “hold a candle to”. When a craftsman and their apprentice would work in the dark, and the apprentice would hold a candle so the master could see. Telling someone they can’t even hold a candle for you, let alone do the complicated job you’re doing, is insulting.
5YXOB TIL about the Fermi Paradox, which states that given how large our universe is, evidence of alien life should have been found by now, leading some scientists to believe that alien civilizations have purposely been keeping us in the dark.
GvG1 TIL Pamela Anderson is Canada’s “Centennial Baby”, having been the first baby born on July 1, 1967, the 100th anniversary of Canada’s official founding