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TIL that the longest stretch of highway in the United States without a gas station is I-70 in Utah. There are no services, no exits, no towns and no legal way to turn around for 106 miles between Green River and Salina

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awMQ0 TIL that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower had a speech prepared in the event that the 1944 D-Day invasion failed. In the speech he takes full responsibility for the failure of the operation.
RDn7 TIL that US, Canadian and Australian consumption of cannabis per capita is more than double that of the Dutch, despite it being legal in Netherlands.
Vr9Q TIL that in the mid-1980’s the Soviet KGB launched “Operation INFEKTION,” aimed at making people believe that the United States invented HIV.
JYMLk TIL nonchalant, disheveled, nonplussed, disconsolate, and nonsensical are examples of unpaired words: words that appear to be formed by a prefix and an existing word, but aren't. Chalant, heveled, plussed, consolate, and sensical are not recognized as English words.
KYvoB TIL that Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal who did barbaric medical experiments on Auschwitz prisoners, survived WW2. In 1979, he drowned in Brazil, where his skeleton is now used as an educational aid at medical school.