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TIL that if you drive at 45 mph on a specific stretch of Route 66 in New Mexico, the road's rumble strips will play 'America the Beautiful.'

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9wpwm TIL that Sesame Street was designed to build up the self-worth of black children through the presentation of positive black images. It purposefully presented an integrated, harmonious community to challenge the marginalization of African-Americans routinely seen on elsewhere in society
WbXo TIL that, although the Babylonian calendar had seven-day weeks, they would stick “leap days” into the last week of each month to get it to sync up with the new moon.
gMNaL TIL that in 2012, 10 year old Clara Lazen accidentally invented a new type of molecule called Tetranitratoxycarbon, they found out when she assembled carbon, oxygen and nitrogen atoms in a random way on a model. The teacher passed it on to a friend, and it was new. In the paper, she was credited.
lgy7 TIL a baby boy was born via caesarean to a 15-year-old girl, who happened to have a vulva but no vagina, 278 days after she sustained abdominal wounds in a knife fight after giving oral sex, during which time spermatozoa gained access to her reproductive organs via the injured gastrointestinal tract
keJ1 TIL there is a women that can see 100 million hues of color which is 99 million more hues then the average person.