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TIL: Six months after building a $680,000 custom house with an ocean view, the homeowners found out it was built on the wrong lot.

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JYwEj TIL Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is about a red-headed clerk who had a crush on her husband, but the song is named after one of her fans. Dolly told her, "That is pretty. That sounds like a song. I'm going to write a song about that."
0dR5p TIL Thomas L. Jennings invented dry cleaning and was the first African-American patent holder in history when it was granted in 1821. He then invested his earnings into the Abolitionist movement.
0wYYL TIL: In the Brazilian jungle is an unfinished elevated freeway over 120 feet high in places with some tunnels and viaducts --abandoned and connected to nothing.
P1dLe TIL Nevada is the state with the highest percentage of Vegans
nWy8P TIL the Denver International Airport is larger than Manhattan, operating on 53 square miles of land.