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TIL that US interstates are numbered in numerical order

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4nZN TIL a grizzly bear can run 30-35mph (48-56km/h)—as fast as a racehorse
98XQ TIL that a British officer, wearing a monocle in Egypt during WW1, was confronted on the parade ground by lines of Australians with pennies in their eyes, threw his monocle up in the air, caught it in his eye, then turned to the parade and roared, ‘All right, you bastards, let’s see you do that.’
p84ne TIL as a play on the copyright infringement common in the former Soviet Union, the packaging of Borat's DVD mimics a foreign bootleg DVD. The slipcover is in English but with an all-Cyrillic text and is made to look poorly photocopied. The disc is a parody on Memorex in the form of Demorez DVD-R.
RBm7 TIL Roller Coaster Tycoon Was Programmed By One Person, Using Assembly.
5y7p TIL that during prohibition, the US government ordered poison be added to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government mandated more potent poison and it killed as many as 10,000 people.