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TIL Michelin started reviewing restaurants so people would travel farther and wear out their tires, increasing their sales.

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eG1g TIL in 2007 the I-35W bridge in Minnesota collapsed with a school bus on the deck. As it fell, a truck driver swerved to give them an exit. It cost him his own life but saved over 50 children.
BXZL TIL that astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise they, “…could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide had formed around their heads.”
EwXV TIL There’s an official government warning for Canadians to be aware of Moose licking salt off their cars
WkyEA TIL That the T. Rex could easily be outrun by a human given their maximum speed is only around 12 mph
16AJW TIL in 1987 the US Army Corps of Engineers completed the Pikeville Cut-Through, the second-largest earth-moving operation in the western hemisphere, second to the Panama Canal. It's a 1.1km long 4-lane highway cut-through in Pikeville Kentucky.