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TIL the average truck driver drives about 125,000 miles per year and can drive over 5 million miles throughout their careers.

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D1alD TIL in 1907 a 9,317 mile automobile race from Peking to Paris was held after a French newspaper asked if anyone could prove their claim that if a man has a car, he can go anywhere. The race was held despite the race committee cancelling the race and the winner won a bottle of champagne.
ZpKXv TIL The “Texas Triangle”— composed of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin metro areas — holds 68% of the state’s 30.3 million residents
9DZp TIL a man tried to shoot an armadillo but the bullet ricocheted off the shell and hit his mother in law
KaQ6 TIL The reason many critics say the James Joyce novel Finnegan’s Wake is nearly “unreadable” and “incomprehensible” is because it’s an attempt to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams.
B0mK TIL: Ibuprofen relieves women’s hurt feelings, but not men’s