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TIL it costs $2-3 million + to build a mile of road

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9w6PQ TIL the only copies of the Haitian Declaration of Independence are in the UK's National Archives, Kew. And was only found to be there as recent as 2010 by a student from Duke University.
9xQM TIL More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks
pYWLe TIL W. E. B. Du Bois attended the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, Germany, where he met many well-known social scientists, among them, Max Weber. He would later return to Harvard University (where he already earned his bachelor's in 1890) and earn his PhD in 1895.
wnN7 TIL George Clooney once said that he’d trade lives with Richard Branson if he could. Branson’s wife instantly responded: “Done!”
EgKG0 TIL of the Higg's Bison, a hypothetical Bison species proposed based on unexpected gene sequences in ancient bones and supported by changes in cave painting depictions of bison.