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TIL: That your car speedometer could show an error of almost ten km/h

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xV8Lw TIL that the graphic designer, Milton Glaser, loved New York so much that he gave his work, the I ❤ NY logo, to the city for free, hoping it would become public property. Today, the logo has earned the New York state $30 million each year and has become a pop culture icon.
4xZN TIL Phones have an asterisk and pound sign because when Bell Labs designed the first touch-tone phone, their system had two tones which were not assigned values. So, they threw in * and #.
1aYXV TIL in 1587, 115 men, women and children arrived at Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. Their colony was to establish England's first foothold in the "New World." When their leader returned from a resupply mission, no one was to be found. All that was left was a token carved into a tree.
Rja6 TIL For 200 years tomatoes were considered poisonous in Europe - in reality their acidity was dissolving poisonous metals from plates
b9DNQ TIL that the same Klan group who lost the fight against the Lumbee also lost a firefight to a group of black WWII veterans who were protecting the house of one of the Klan's targets.