Did you know that...
Frank Lloyd Wright designed and built over 800 buildings in his lifetime, including a huge art-glass filled home in Springfield and a filling station somewhere in Wisconsin?
Mary Todd Lincoln held a Strawberry Party every year at her home, inviting everyone she knew to partake of her desserts in an orderly and timed fashion?
women of the 1800s specialized in tormenting men with a secret language using their fans: a tap on the left cheek meant "no," a fully extended fan meant "wait for me," and quick fanning meant "I'm married, so leave me alone"?
the dandelion is native to Europe, as is the starling and the sparrow?
Thomas Jefferson gave a lecture on an extinct Ground Sloth, an event which marked the beginning of vertebrate paleontology in North America and led to the sloth being renamed Jefferson's Ground Sloth?
You too can learn all of these fascinating facts and more, if you visit The Dana Thomas House, The Lincoln Home, The Mary Todd Lincoln Strawberry Party, and the Illinois State Museum. If you're observant, you might also notice protesters against immigration on the capitol lawn and bored cops driving in circles in a parking lot.
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