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Til about snowing a bridge, the old practice of adding snow to bridges to make a smooth surface for sleighs

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OopD6 TIL that salmon is actually a whitefish; its red color comes from a chemical absorbed from plankton
KBVB TIL The Areni-1 shoe is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in near perfect condition. For perspective, the shoes are 400 years older than those found at Stonehenge, and 1,000 years older than those found at the Great Pyramid of Giza.
W776B TIL about Abd al-Rahman. A Umayyad prince who narrowly escaped the killing of his family by the Abassid and wandered across Egypt and North Africa in exile for years before reaching Iberia and starting a kingdom that lasted for three centuries there where Muslim, Jews and Christians lived together.
4Pva TIL that when Arizona voted against creating a state holiday for MLK in 1990, Public Enemy made a protest single “When I Get to Arizona,” that led to the 1993 Super Bowl being relocated, the cancellation of thousands of conventions, and an estimated loss of $350 million in tourism.
e0Dbb TIL In order to link their stone age village to the outside world, 13 Chinese villagers carved their way through a mountain. Today, that tunnel is a tourist attraction