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TIL U.S. Taxpayers funded re-forestation efforts in Lebanon for the historic Cedar trees

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R7oxa TIL that when House Speaker Tip O'Neill showed Ronald Reagan the desk of former president Grover Cleveland, Reagan remarked that he'd played Cleveland in a film. O'Neill reminded him that Reagan had actually played Grover Cleveland Alexander, a baseball player.
6nEW TIL of “The Town That Has Burned for Fifty Years.” Centralia, Pennsylvania is a ghost town due to a massive underground inferno that has been burning since 1962.
7L7O TIL Thomas Jefferson believed that The Constitution should expire every 19 years.
0dyMp TIL that Joachim de Alameda was not the original actor cast to be "Bucho" in Robert Rodriguez's "Desperado"...it was supposed to be Raul Julia.
OGQa4 TIL about Rocky, a black bear who served as a paratrooper in the Korean War and is a Purple Heart recipient