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TIL that the East Los Angeles Interchange, located in Boyle Heights, California, is the busiest freeway interchange in the world. Handling over 550,000 cars a day.

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gMQ07 TIL that all the artists whose music was used in the Blues Brothers film kept the publishing rights and got all the income from the album sales. Dan & John only took the performers rights
l7Z07 TIL the most common state of matter in the universe isn't solid, liquid, or gas, but plasma
X0G6E TIL that when fully loaded, the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in 2021 has a greater displacement and tonnage than that of the Lusitania, Titanic, Queen Mary and QE2 combined
POae TIL Chevy Chase is the only SNL cast member to be banned from ever hosting SNL again. “He once suggested a sketch, In 1985, where Terry Sweeney (an openly gay cast member), had AIDS, and the sketch showed viewers how much weight he lost every week.”
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