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TIL Mount Rushmore, or Six Grandfathers is the sacred site for many Indigenous people including the Sioux, the US betrayed the Sioux & abandoned its ratified treaty with them due to the Gold Rush & insulted them further by blowing the mountains to build the "National Memorial Shrine of Democracy"

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oBX0L TIL Ireland had a constitutional prohibition on divorce until 1995
5YwMR TIL the Apollo 11 rock presented to Ireland was accidentally discarded in a landfill known as the Dunsink Landfill in October 1977 following a fire that consumed the Meridian room library at the Dublin Dunsink Observatory where the rock was displayed.
RDR1 TIL when the UK withdraws from Afghanistan later this year it will be the first time the country has not been at war for a hundred years
epKyg TIL that, in the 1930's, the only commercial airport serving New York City was in New Jersey. To protest this, NYC Mayor LaGuardia once refused to deplane in NJ because his ticket said "New York City," so they flew him to NYC.
JYQ0k TIL that while Nashville has a beautiful recreation of the Parthenon according to how it would look to the Ancient Greeks, Memphis has the world’s tenth largest pyramid and they decided to put a Bass Pro Shop in it