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TIL Most all road signs in the US are made by prison inmates

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v1Anj TIL Sharks have been on earth for longer than trees have.
R7PjQ TIL that in 1996, an American citizen swam across a Chinese river into North Korea on a drunken dare. He got caught, was held and imprisoned under suspicion of being a spy, but was eventually released back to the U.S. He committed suicide a few weeks later.
DQ0ZD TIL that Aimen Dean was a former member and bomb maker for al-Qaeda turned MI6 spy
16OlD TIL of Lewis Harned, an American who served as an ambulance driver in WWII from 1943-45, attached to the British Army. He also served in the Gulf War, 45 years later, with the American Army, from 1990-91.
69lrX TIL old batteries contained cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. These batteries should not be disposed of in regular household trash at the end of their life.