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YpgOr TIL State Highway 69 was renamed to State Highway 112 due to vandalism of "epidemic proportion".
WkDl4 TIL the 9th president of the USA William Henry Harrison, contracted and subsequently died of pneumonia after performing A exhausting 8,445 word speech in subzero conditions with no coat or gloves for warmth.
Od1 TIL that finding pennies is considered good luck because years ago people thought that finding metal was a gift from the Gods and meant to protect you from evil.
R5xv6 TIL that the shape of a Pringle is called "hyperbolic paraboloid", and has its own equation.
x6LDB TIL about Strom Thurmond filibuster. On 28 August 1957, US Senator Strom Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster failed to prevent the passage of the bill