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TIL there are labor unions for gravediggers, and sometimes they go on strike.

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l7aJG TIL beaver dams saved a wetland in the Czech Republic. The government was planning to do the same thing, but the bureaucracy took too long. The dams saved $1.2 million.
9Y44m TIL that Mount Rushmore is built in the black hills, a mountain range considered sacred to the Lakota tribe which the United States took in 1876. "Members of the American Indian Movement led an occupation of the monument in 1971, naming it "Mount Crazy Horse"
69mD7 TIL that if you ever mistakenly load a dishwasher with dish soap instead of dishwasher detergent, that you remedy the situation with a quarter cup of vegetable oil
Me9dB TIL The only copies of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Beowulf" are unique manuscripts that came from the same private library -- both were nearly destroyed in a fire in 1731,
BPYx TIL of La Mancha Negra, a mysterious black goo that oozes up from beneath Venezuelan roadways, killing drivers. Despite, much study, we have no idea what the goo is.