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TIL M-185 on Mackinac island, Michigan is the only state highway in US where no motorized vehicles are allowed. Travel is only by bicycles, horses or on foot.

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68k8 TIL prisoners can vote in two states, but in many others, going to prison may permanently ban you from voting.
9YM9Q TIL in 2001, on a flight to Kenya, the pilot passed out at the controls of his private plane, Rowan Atkinson took control of the Cessna 202 aircraft - saving the lives of his wife and two children. The pilot eventually came to, after several slaps by Atkinson, and managed to land the plane safely
J89B TIL that Adolf Hitler was injected with a daily dose of methamphetamine by his doctors from 1942-1945
9976 TIL That there is a Stonehenge like structure at the bottom of Lake Michigan with a possible Petroglyph of a Mastodon on one of the boulders.
v1187 Turns out, our ancient ancestors' consumption of fermented fruits created a genetic mutation that be the cause of alcoholism in people today.