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

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JBVQ TIL that almost every successful pop song in the last 20 years was written by one man, Max Martin. He has a net worth of $250,000,000.
R59ja TIL that the opposite of exorcism is adorcism: the practice of inviting positive spirits into places or people.
4kWJo TIL: In the 1800s, huge blocks of ice were cut from the frozen Kennebec River in Maine and shipped to places as far as India and the Caribbean. The ice was packed in sawdust for insulation and could survive months at sea.
awyDJ TIL Leicester physics graduates concluded that Star Trek's tribbles would fill the USS Enterprise in 4.5 days. Using Spock's estimate that each tribble can birth 10 offspring in 12 hrs. amounting to 1,777,561 tribbles in 3 days they added an exponential growth rate of 18.4×109 tribbles.
5Vx0D TIL that humans have been sewing even before the Homo Sapiens!