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TIL the most expensive Mega-Project ever was Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, costing 500 billion dollars, spanning 48,181 miles, and dwarfing the cost of every other Mega-Project in history.

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rRmj1 TIL A company in India illegally dumping waste in the Mumbai River in India were cought when the waste was turning local stray dogs blue
BkjL TIL Dwayne Johnson was set to star in a movie about Hawaiian warrior-king Kamehameha, but was pulled because he’s Samoan, with the producer saying, “It would be a great taboo for the part to go to a nationality that was a fierce enemy of the Hawaiians during that time.”
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oR1DA TIL people with blue eyes indicate a lack of melanin. Eye color is directly related to the amount of melanin in the front layers of the iris. People with brown eyes have a large amount of melanin in the iris. It's believed blue eyes are can be traced to one human being. Darker eyes help reflect sun.