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TIL that on February 25th 1919, Oregon became the first state in the United States to implement a gas tax of 1 penny per gallon to fund road construction and maintenance.

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XEdWj TIL about the Sony BMG rookit which infected millions of computers. Sony BMG initially denied that the software was harmful, but it couldn't easily be uninstalled, and created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware.
4Xkpw TIL that Nicolas Cage turned down the role of Mr. Wednesday on the Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods." (It went to Ian McShane.)
xVAlw TIL Jeanne Barret, expert botanist, was the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe. She enlisted in Bougainville expedition (1766-1769) disguised as a man and supposedly as her boyfriend's valet, the botanist Philibert Commerson
VM5PB TIL 3.6 billion people have watched some part of the live broadcast of the 2016 Olympics. That is almost half of the world's population.
rO8W TIL the US-Canada Border is both the longest and least militarized border in the world