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TIL that Virginia is home to a foam replica of Stonehenge named “Foamhenge”

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GAVX5 TIL that the dude who wrote the “…for dummies” book series is the real-life basis for the nerdy character “Mark Ratner” in “fast times at ridgemont high”
8epvV TIL that Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the Phonautograph, the earliest known device for recording sound and patented it on March 4th 1857, a full 20 years before Thomas Edison created the Phonograph.