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TIL Something I should have been taught decades ago

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X5xR TIL Dale Earnhardt Jr. built a fully staffed, fully themed western town in his backyard just to throw parties in.
J1gVm TIL that the Goseck Circle, a neolithic structure in Germany has entrances that align with the sunrise and sunset on both the winter and summer solstice. It was built around 4,900 BC making it nearly 7,000 old. This makes it older than Newgrange in Ireland and Stonehenge in England.
R50d8 TIL that transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (also known as prion diseases) have the highest mortality rate of any disease that is not inherited: 100%
neJJY TIL Iceland has a Horse Naming Commission that oversees horse names across the country to ensure that no horse gets a foreign, vulgar, or inappropriate name.
oBv8E TIL that the Amish population doubles every 21 years