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TIL that the first Ten Commandments Monuments in the US were created for the purpose of promoting a Paramount Pictures film by Cecil B. DeMille in 1956

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Qnnp TIL Winston Churchill once said “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else.”
OoOB4 TIL that David Blair was originally assigned as the Second Officer on the Titanic, but due to a change just before the sailing, was not on the crew. In his quick departure, he accidentally kept a key to a locker containing binoculars, thus preventing the crew from using them to help spot icebergs.
p8OlG TIL Tortoise shells and tree resins are natural plastics
woLoE TIL Christopher Columbus never made it to (what would later become) the United States of America.
69Mnw TIL of Ripton, Massachusetts, a fictitious town created in 1985 by a professor at UMass-Amherst to protest the Boston-based state government's neglect of rural Western Mass towns. He applied and was approved for grants and funding from the state before the hoax was uncovered.