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TIL that when the Tennessee legislature proposed to erect a statue of Dolly Parton, she asked the legislature to remove the bill from consideration, saying it wasn't appropriate to put her on a pedestal.

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QB16 TIL Engineers in Canada receive an Iron Ring to to remind them to have humility. It is in memory of a bridge that collapsed twice due to incorrect calculations involving iron.
amMA TIL The “Phone-a-Friend” lifeline on Who Wants to be a Millionaire was removed because the friend would often use the internet (instead of their own knowledge) to find the correct answer.
woXw1 TIL Sioux Lookout was once home to the second busiest airport in North America behind Chicago.
E1WZp TIL from 1975 to 1998, a version of the Confederate battle flag appeared in the coat of arms and flag of Americana, São Paulo, a city settled by Confederate expatriates.
OdrL TIL physicists have experimentally achieved temperatures below absolute zero. Using supercooled potassium gas and a system of lasers and magnetic fields to precisely manipulate the potassium atoms, physicists successfully “cooled” the gas to a few billionths of a degree below absolute zero.