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TIL in February 1978, amateur adventurer Dave Voelker walked across a frozen Lake Erie on foot, departing the coast near Sandusky, Ohio and arriving the next evening in Colchester, Ontario, a distance of 28 miles.

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noy7 TIL since the 1990s, Carmel, Indiana has been replacing all signaled intersections with roundabouts. Benefits include gas savings of 24k gallons/year per roundabout; construction costs $125,000 less per intersection; injury accidents dropped by 80 percent and total accidents dropped by 40 percent.
KLR9 TIL that William Edmondson, the son of freed slaves, took up sculpting at age 55 after seeing a vision from God. He used found materials and made his own tools out of railroad spikes. Eight years later he was the first Black artist to have a one-man show at MoMA.
YpO8r TIL That South Park episodes are written, recorded, and animated in 6 days. This is done so the show can comment on current events close to when they happen.
1nNV TIL: There is 2 islands on a river in Liberia where Chimps that have been used for medical research are sent, instead of being put to death. Basically, it’s the real life version of Planet of the Apes.
9Y9A7 TIL Babylonians were using a rudimentary form of calculus to calculate Jupiter’s displacement each day along the ecliptic, the path that the sun appears to trace through the stars. Historians had thought such techniques did not emerge until more than 1400 years later, in 14th century Europe.