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TIL there is a secret hall in Mount Rushmore referred to as the “Hall of Records” containing 16 porcelain tablets for future generations

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4XymR TIL about a conspiracy theory about an ad of a dice game that was thought to have been a coded warning of the upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor
PYkEG TIL that the engine that powers the MiG 21 fighter jet can, in an emergency, provide 143% of maximum thrust for two minutes before it explodes.
d8lQ7 TIL In 1866, The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million by writing a check.
KpMB TIL Genghis Khan killed so many people he cleaned about 700 million tons of Carbon from the atmosphere. It may be the first case of man made global cooling.
bwd4 TIL that there is a three-digit-code on every egg carton that indicates the date of packaging, starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365