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TIL Part of the land where the Pentagon sits today used to be a hemp farm

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v1RgD TIL: Of Nutty Narrows Bridge; a bridge built in the treetops during the 1960s specifically to help squirrels cross a freeway in Washington without getting hit by cars.
W059 TIL a women with a PhD in math won the scratch lottery in Texas 4 times (about $21 million) by figuring out the algorithm of the ticket production.
YpOoB TIL That Jack Black’s mother helped with the Hubble space telescope.
9Zyp TIL A small jumping spider named Euophrys omnisuperstes (which means ‘standing above everything else’) lives at elevations of up to 6,700 metres on Mount Everest, making it the highest known permanent resident on earth.
bP47 TIL Cards against Humanity funds the Science Ambassador Scholarship: full tuition for a woman seeking an undergraduate degree in STEM fields.