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TIL that Wyoming only has two sets of escalators in the entire state, and both are in the same city.

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gMx9D TIL The first Earth Day was in 1970 and was proposed by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. After seeing the damage caused by a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California in 1969, he was inspired to educate the public about the environment.
p8dwp TIL of Witold Pilecki a Polish Cavalry officer who volunteered to be smuggled into Auschwitz in order to later escape and tell of the horrors.
a8WWy TIL that the Theory of Evolution was codiscovered by Alfred Russel Wallace, a contemporary of Darwin. They exchanged essays and ideas prior to Darwin publishing "On the Origin of Species".
Xy08 TIL Christine Jiaxin Lee spent millions of dollars on handbags and luxury goods after a bank gave her the money by mistake. She obtained $4.6 million and spent the majotity of it.
BZPb TIL artist Chuck Close, renowned for his large photo-realistic portraits, suffered a stroke at age 48 which left him paralyzed from the neck down. However, he continued painting, using chunks of paper, finger prints and paint blobs to create the same photo-realism effect, just at a lower resolution.