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TIL two men went missing in Naples, FL after being arrested by the same officer for driving without a license, one year apart.

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jN6xj TIL: Railroad Tracks in Russia are wider than everywhere else because they didn't want potential invading armies to use their rail network.
P19EL TIL about the forced expulsion of the Chagossians, when the UK, at the request of the US, began expelling the native inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago in 1968. The entire population of the Chagos was removed to Mauritius and the Seychelles by 1973
ADR6x TIL that the British Royal Society of Chemistry recommends adding tea to milk, and not the other way around, as adding milk to tea results in "significant denaturation" of the milk, adversely affecting flavor.
E1VaV TIL after being misspelled for 54 years, the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge in New York City had its name corrected in 2018.
9w6JD TIL: The concept of "Net Carbs,"was created by Atkins Nutritionals Inc. It is not based on any scientific studies and the term was dropped from their program by Atkins in 2004 for being "too vague." Neither the FDA nor the American Diabetes Association recognizes the term or the concept as valid.