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TIL that Thomas Jefferson believed Lewis and Clark would encounter Woolly Mammoths, mountains of salt, and a race of Welsh-speaking Indians along their journey west.

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P4jG TIL actor Peter Butterworth was a POW who took part in the actual “Great Escape,” but was rejected for the film for not looking “convincingly heroic or athletic.”
1EDr TIL that segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor blacks and whites, making it far less likely that the two groups would sustain interracial alliances aimed at toppling the white elite.
RVg4 TIL the assassination of the Archduke of Austria, which set off WWI, was due to a wrong turn. After a first failed attempt and the conspirators giving up on the mission, the Archduke decided to visit the injured in the hospital and accidentally drove past one of them after taking a wrong turn.
aLab TIL There’s a basketball court on the fifth floor of the United States Supreme Court. It’s known as the Highest Court in the Land.
rRbR0 TIL that France is the world’s biggest tourist destination, receiving nearly 20 million more visitors annually than the runner up, USA. This is doubly impressive when you consider that the US is over fifteen times the size of France.