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TIL that roundabouts reduce fatalities from accidents by 90%. They also lower wait times and save on gas.

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a8OnA TIL that David Cox and Steven Zucker, two graduate students from Princeton, developed an algorithm for the intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces and named it the Cox-Zucker machine.
LVd TIL that Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s can be traced as far back as three years into his first term of presidency
OrAL TIL that the New Horizons space probe that passed Pluto in 2015 had an ounce of Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes, the man that discovered Pluto
e0ED TIL the dashed lines on highways are 10 feet long, and the spaces are 30 feet long.
7rgJp TIL the London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito, which is more aggressive towards humans than its surface-dwelling relative.