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TIL that just outside Albuquerque you can drive East on Route 66 and hit a rumble strip that plays "America The Beautiful" if you drive the speed limit, turning the wheels of your car into a phonograph

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xVxJb TIL: Medical professionals are more likely to believe women’s symptoms are ‘all in their head’ compared to men. Women have to fight for their symptoms to be taken seriously even in serious cases such as brain tumours.
18MP TIL - Microsoft search engine Bing has lost the company 5.5 billion since its launch in 2009.
ADL14 TIL that the two most distinctive features of the 'Death Star' in Star Wars—its crater-shaped 'superlaser' and the 'trench' around its circumference—were actually the combined features of two of Saturn's moons, Iapetus and Mimas.
nAad TIL of Donald Crowhurst who in 1968 entered an around the world yacht race, he abandoned the race early on but continued to report false positions in an attempt to make it appear as if he was still competing and ultimately went insane and killed himself
PYXrO TIL Lysol was advertised as a method of birth control (via douching), leading to several deaths