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8e6kZ 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.'
460o TIL in 1999 Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow light down to 37 miles an hour, and was later able to stop light completely.
oRv4L TIL: Of Charles Osborne, who had hiccups for 68 years
ADlOg TIL The German Empire committed genocide in Namibia from 1904-1908, killing upto 110000 natives, making it one of the earliest attempts at genocide in the 20th century. In 2015 the German government refused to consider reparations for the act.
kOeNg TIL That “one nation under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance during the Eisenhower administration and has only been in place for 65 years