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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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Mep9a TIL about the Digital Wellbeing feature offered by android, wherein you can, among other things, switch on Focus Mode with distracting apps paused, keep track of time spent on apps, have work related apps switched off at home and do many other things to manage your time and mind space.
x667B TIL In 1014, Byzantine Emperor Basil II captured several thousand Bulgarian soldiers, put them into groups of 100, and blinded 99 in every group. The last soldiers had only one eye gouged out and were ordered to lead their blind friends home. Upon seeing this, Tsar Samuel died of a heart attack.
00J5 TIL that Tom Cruise was originally slated to play Tony Stark/Iron Man but got dropped because he demanded that his face was visible at all times.
eplog TIL that in 1940, after the German Luftwaffe bombed Buckingham Palace during the Blitz, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother refused to leave the King and evacuate to Canada with her children, saying - "I am almost glad we have been bombed. Now I feel I can look the East End in the face."
loPO5 TIL Jesse James once gave a widow he was staying with $1400 to pay off a debt collector. James then hid and waited for the debt collector to leave, and then robbed the man as he left the widow's home.