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TIL that on 20 July 1970, locals in New Jersey saved Lucy the Elephant - a six-story, 60-foot, 90-ton wooden landmark - by moving her two blocks. Built in 1882, she’s served as a tavern, cottage, office, restaurant and Airbnb. Lucy remains the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in America.

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9wB0r TIL that in the 1960s, Quebec’s Quiet Revolution saw the government take over schools, hospitals, and Hydro-Québec from the Catholic Church, creating jobs, improving services, reducing Church power, and sparking Quebec pride, nationalism, and a push for independence.
R47 TIL that Woody Allen’s son Ronan Farrow, a former child prodigy that now works as a Special Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is disgusted by his dad marrying his sister. On Fathers Day 2012, he tweeted “Happy father’s day— or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law’s day”
rRaJo TIL, Newt Gingrich met his first wife when she was his geometry teacher in high school, Gingrich later divorced her while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer. Gingrich eventually married the women he was cheating on his first wife with, they are still married today.
9MpB TIL there is a bacteria that can survive with almost no nutrients in a spacecraft assembly clean room and is resistant against the sterilization measures used there.
ymNM TIL that Carl Stalling, the composer behind Bugs Bunny, spent 22 years working every day with a 50-piece orchestra at Warner Bros. Studios. He ultimately scored in excess of 600 cartoons at the rate of one score per week between 1936 and 1958.