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TIL that the planning documents for the lower Thames crossing (a proposed road crossing in England) are 359,866 pages long across 2,383 documents, and laid end to end would stretch 66 miles -- 5 times longer than the proposed road itself

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1a8yD TIL that the color of a bread tie represents which day of the week it was baked on.
ANoLx TIL that in 1932, as a last ditch attempt to prevent Hitler from taking power, Brüning (the german chancellor) tried to restore the monarchy.
XKDk TIL Abraham Lincoln, who ran as a Republican during the era of Whigs and Democrats, was America’s last third-party candidate to successfully win the presidency.
j6GZn TIL studies show that experiencing Déjà vu is more likely to occur in individuals with more education, travel experience, and liberal attitudes. It also greatly diminishes as a person ages.
gMROX TIL because NATO's Article 6 covers only member states' islands in the North Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer, plus French Algeria. An attack on the U.S. state of Hawaii would not trigger the treaty, but an attack on the other 49 would.