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TIL there’s a series of large concrete arrows pointing the way across the US, once used to guide airmail planes

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wLBEo TIL Lapland New Forest Christmas Park featured a smoking Santa, a reindeer with a broken antler, neglected huskies, a broken ice rink, and a picture of the nativity in a muddy field. With a £30 entry fee and 2hr long queue, one of elves was assaulted by angry visitors. The park was shut after 6 days
6EjMm TIL Lake Tahoe is home to the oldest petroglyphs ever discovered in North America and a mummy three times as old as the Egyptian mummy King Tut.
Brrnr TIL that there were giant apex predator otters roaming China millions of years ago.
v9rR TIL when Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Raven”, he initially considered making the poem about a parrot.
9YoOm TIL NASA was so clueless about the workings of a woman's body, in 1983 they tried to send the first female astronaut, Sally Ride, to space with 100 tampons, asking if that would be enough. She was to be in orbit for 14 days.