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TIL the highest achievement in the community of airbrush artistry is the “Vargas Award.”

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Z8E7v TIL Keystone, South Dakota (pop. 337) had its origins in 1883 as a mining town, and has since transformed itself into a resort town, serving the needs of the millions of visitors to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial
x6NM0 TIL about mechanical television from the 20s and 30s, which used a rotating device to scan a scene and generate a signal which would then be viewed on the other end similarly
VBMk8 TIL that the possibility of your parents having another child that is an exact copy of you is extremely slim (1: 8,38 million), but it is in fact a real one. It is possible to get a clone sibling.
peGb TIL that some of the ancient Native American pueblos have been continuously inhabited for over 1000 years
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