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

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xVwZB TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.
kJaMB TIL There is a Sasquatch Park in British Columbia, as the legendary Bigfoot is said to have roamed the area
Ypad7 TIL That in 1924, the Montreal Canadiens stored the Stanley Cup in the trunk of their car. When they got a flat tire, they removed the cup, then drove off leaving the prized cup on a snowbank.
1aORO TIL Alaska has a fund that provides over $1000 annually to every resident
EggRW TIL Many civilizations believed that the "tooth worm" existed, a superstition that existed until the 18th century. A cuneiform tablet from the seventh century BCE titled “The Legend of the Worm” tells the tale of the tooth worm, a demon which drinks the blood and eats the roots of the teeth