Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which stretches across North Carolina and Tennessee, was the most-visited park of 2023. (Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images)

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The National Park Service recorded 325,498,646 recreation visits across 400 sites, which is close to pre-pandemic levels

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On this day in 1936, Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov died. Pavlov, who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology, is known for his conditioning experiments with dogs.

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