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TIL the unofficial fastest recorded time to drive from New York, New York to LA, California was 28 hours and 50 minutes in a 2004 Mercedes-Benz CL55 AMG

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awyMZ TIL children who were victims of bullying are consistently found to be at higher risk of being diagnosed with anxiety and depression in adulthood. They never truly get over it.
k54W TIL Henry Ford popularized charcoal briquettes after he noticed noticed a large amount of his money being wasted on wood used in the manufacturing process of his model A cars. Ford passed off the briquette business to a relative named Kingsford and the rest is history.
ax0b TIL that this young man sits on the side of Empire Road in South Africa and instead of begging he provides book reviews. He collects all these books, reads each of them, and provides reviews for people passing by. If you like the review, he will try to sell you the book.
X0r6X TIL Thomas Knoll built an image processing program to help with his Ph.D. work. With inputs from his brother John, he built a software package. Initially, they licensed the distribution rights to Adobe & 7 years later (in 1995) sold the rights to Photoshop for $34.5m. Thomas never finished his Ph.D.
P1QoJ TIL about Labadee, a Royal Caribbean owned private beach resort in Haiti complete with a 30 foot wall and armed guards on each side isolating it from the rest of the country. Tourists arrive at a port connected to the resort and never go beyond the boundaries of the resort.