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TIL that my learned habit of putting 2 spaces after a period is woefully out of date.

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EgVyo TIL of Mrs. Orcutt's Driveway, a 4.1 mile long access road that an elderly widow successfully petitioned the U.S. federal government to build for her when her isolated desert home was essentially cut off by the construction of Interstate 40 and the bypassing of the old Route 66.
0dY1A TIL that approximately 720,000 twopences and nearly 44,000,000 pennies were issued, all bearing the date 1797. No other dates appear on Cartwheel penny and two-penny pieces. A new series of copper pennies, halfpennies, and farthings was later issued in 1806 and 1807.
kOaPB TIL that in 2000, a drug bust at an abandoned nuclear missile silo in Kansas led to a 95% drop in availability of LSD in the United States for two years.
K16E TIL that many animals can communicate by vibrating the surface of earth, water or other substrates, a phenomenon known as seismic communication. Predators also use this ability to eavesdrop on their prey.
e0Y9J TIL doctors stationed in Antarctica must have their appendix removed before going on post.