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TIL of the Crazy Horse Memorial, a mountain carving monument of an Oglala Lakota warrior, has been under construction about 10 mi from Mt. Rushmore since 1948. Crazy Horse's face is about 50% large than those of the Mt. Rushmore presidents.

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9Xk7 TIL that shortly before 2 am on Feb. 6, 1858, over 30 members of the U.S. House of Representatives engaged in a fistfight which only ended when a hairpiece was ripped off one of the combatants, causing the melee to dissolve into “a chorus of laughs and jeers.”
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