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TIL The concrete used to make the Hoover Dam is still curing to this day

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BgxAK TIL: in 1896 two trains were intentionally crashed at high speed in the United States as a public spectacle.
Ep1x TIL New York has an official militia called the New York Guard. Anyone 18-62 can join and basic training lasts 1 week. If you’re in it, you don’t have to pay tolls in New York.
ANg5a TIL Pliny the Elder was a naturalist and author who apparently died trying to mount a boat rescue for victims of the Pompeii disaster.
oBOJW TIL William Safire was asked to prepare a speech for president Nixon to read on television to the world if Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became stranded on the moon.
JPYQ TIL the highest-ever federal tax rate was in 1954: 92% for those making over $1.7 million (in 2013 dollars). [pdf]