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TIL There is a 400-foot wide peace symbol carved into the woods near the Nashville, TN airport.

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m1a4R TIL Glen Hansard dated a singer named Markéta Irglová who he “discovered” and managed since she was 15 and he was 33. Started dating at 18 and 36. He later said “"I had been falling in love with her for a long time, but I kept telling myself she's just a kid"
w0N8 TIL the Nazi’s used special buses that had their exhaust fed into the passenger compartment where they transported mentally disabled people in order to kill them.
yNla TIL NHL player Jerome Iginla donates $2000 to charity for every goal he scores. He’s scored over 500 in his career.
6O7X TIL that NYC has the highest concentration of nesting peregrine falcons in the world
ke1g TIL: Robert Lucas, upon receiving a Nobel Prize in economic sciences, was only awarded half the prize money. His ex-wife had placed a clause in their divorce settlement in 1988 stating she would receive half the prize money if he won the prize in the following 7 years. He won in the year 1995.