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TIL The Pennsylvania Turnpike is the most expensive toll road in the world

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oRpNA TIL an indigenous man, whose family lived in Hong Kong before 1898, gets free land from government to build his home.
VMxyD TIL In order to draft up the Nuremberg racial laws, the nazis studied in detail American racial laws. However they found the "one-drop" rule too harsh and thus settled to regard anyone with 3 of 4 Jewish grandparents as a Jew.
R5kmj TIL Alton Brown was the cinematographer for REM's "The One I Love" music video
DVKg TIL the tiny glands on nipples keep the areola lubricated and protected.
xVaa1 TIL Juan García, deliberately became a double agent against the Nazi's during WWII. He was so good he was awarded medals by both sides in the war. He convinced the Nazi's the D-Day landing was a diversion for an attack in Pas de Calais, so they kept large forces there before and after the invasion.