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TIL - There is a secret room behind Mount Rushmore designed to store US treasured documents

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jN4VN TIL that "God bless you" originated in Rome when the bubonic plague was ravaging Europe. Sneezing was one the plague's main symptoms, and it is believed that Pope Gregory I suggested that a tiny prayer in the form of saying, "God bless you" after a sneeze would protect the person from death.
d855K TIL The Kop at Liverpool FC is named for the Liverpudlian soldiers who died in South Africa
MejgW TIL about the Jabuticaba tree which grows warts like fruits directly on its trunk.
47x6 TIL Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks watch a lot of movies together, but only movies that contain the phrase “secure the perimeter.”
VMNEZ TIL the YouTube music video for Jamrioquai's Virtual Insanity is over 10 years old