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TIL that More Black Men are in Prison Today than were Enslaved in 1850

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W7XPY TIL that the world's longest floating bridge spans Lake Washington in Seattle and is called the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. It is 7,710 feet long, the concrete floating bridge is the longest floating bridge in the world carrying State Route 520 from Seattle to its eastern suburbs.
wo6Lo TIL the very eyebrow raising origins of the Oneida Cutlery company and one of their ousted members went on to assassinate President Garfield
yQMR8 TIL that an A10's gun is so powerful that shooting it halfs the planes forward thrust
ne7BP TIL when poisonous frogs are fed zoo diets they no longer become poisonous. The wide variety of food in the wild supplies them with the chemicals for making poison.
e0vRb TIL I learned a woman made bread with the yeast from her own yeast infection