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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.
XEaGk TIL organized crime directly affects 22% of the Italian population and 14.6% of the Italian GDP.
xVOYk TIL that the PEPFAR program, started by Pres. Bush, is credited with saving the lives of 17 million people living with HIV
x6ajw TIL: If you cut 2 different sponges up, disaggregate them (push them through a sieve), and mix the 2 cell-slurries together - the sponge cells reassociate with their own cells, but not cells of the other species. This is being studied to understand tissue repair and transplant rejection.
wLwj1 TIL Nikola Tesla predicted the modern smartphone - in 1926.