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

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Lkbd9 TIL Ottoman Sultan Bayezid and Tamerlane frequently trash-talked eachother by exchanging letters filled with personal insults
Ov6X TIL that David Bowie’s permanently dilated pupil was the result of a punch to the face in a fight over a girl. Despite their altercation, he and George Underwood stayed friends and Underwood went on to do the artwork for Bowie’s early albums.
xV5ng TIL that Harvest Mice like crawling into flowers to eat the pollen and sometimes even fall asleep in them.
aoYA TIL that when Socrates was sentenced to death, he was asked to propose an alternate sentence befitting the crime, and proposed that they instead serve him dinner at the town hall.
m1aYo TIL of Operation Plumbbob, where a nuclear bomb was detonated in a vertical tunnel with a 2,000lb (900kg) metal plate plugging the surface. The plate was launched into the air at 6 times Earth's escape velocity