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TIL that the ACLU has filed a lawsuit defending the KKK’s right to participate in Georgia’s Adopt-A-Highway program

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R1Q1 TIL that having zero recollection of your drive to work or school (autopilot), has a name. It’s called Highway Hypnosis.
KO7WB TIL one of the cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., asked for whiskey on his death bed, but was denied and died 36 years sober.
YpQbB TIL that Sherlock Holmes had never once said “Elementary, My Dear Watson”. Apparently it’s very common for famous literary characters to have false catchphrases attaches to their names.
kJA4d TIL about Tianducheng, a chinese town of 30,000 people built to look like Paris
XE7gk TIL that South Pole so much colder than the North Pole because it sits on top of a very thick ice sheet, which itself sits on a continent. The surface of the ice sheet at the South Pole is more than 9,000 feet in elevation--more than a mile and a half above sea level.