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TIL Arlington National Cemetery includes Arlington House, a Memorial to Robert E Lee

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m1Jkp TIL world largest pyramid is partly underground and is in Mexico, Cholula.
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8aRZX TIL In 1956 writer Harper Lee received an envelope from family and friends with a year’s salary in it. It read “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” She wrote To kill a Mockingbird which won the Pulitzer prize and sold over 30 million copies worldwide
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NEw8 TIL The Boudin bakery in San Francisco, has been making sourdough bread for 166 years and every loaf of sourdough bread they make has a portion of the original “mother dough” from 1849 in it.