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TIL more than 43,500 bridges in the US are rated in poor condition and classified as “structurally deficient.” Motorists cross these structures 167.5 million times a day

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rROoM TIL Jonathan Goldsmith, aka The Most Interesting Man In The World, got his gig by auditioning, where he removed one sock and improvised for 30 minutes straight, concluding with the line "...and that's how I arm wrestled Fidel Castro".
MeNEa TIL: Franklin W. Dixon, who wrote the Hardy Boys books, wasn't a single individual. Instead, a publishing house used the pseudonym to have multiple people produce a lot books quickly. The Nancy Drew books worked the same way.
P5pe TIL Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was created in 1939 by a 34 year old Montgomery Ward employee. The employee was given the task of writing a short story to give away as a marketing booklet to children during the Christmas season
knL4 TIL cashews, pistachios and mangoes are all in the same family of plant, meaning people with nut allergies often react to mango as well.
EgPVp TIL that the Slurpee was invented by accident when a Dairy Queen owner would provide frozen soda, from a cooler, to customers when his soda fountain would break down. The owner, Omar Knedlik, improvised the Icee machine out of car parts, which was eventually licensed by 7-11, to become the Slurpee.