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TIL The King Ranch trim for Ford trucks and SUVs is named after a famous Texas rancher, Richard King, and the wavy icon on these trucks is thought to represent either diamondback rattlesnakes, longhorn bull horns, or the Santa Gertrudis Creek

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D8ep TIL that Anthony Graves spent 18 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. The State of Texas owes him $80,000 per year of false incarceration, and has evaded paying him due to a technicality on a form.
yVByp TIL construction on the 2nd Ave Subway started in 1972 but stopped n 1975 due to NYC's fiscal crisis. It resumed in 2007 where 1.8 miles of track cost $4.45 billion & a planned 1.5 mile will cost $6 billion. 1 expert stated that the Phase 1 project was the most expensive subway project in the world
1aLx8 Today I Learned an ultra-rare species of blue bees has recently been redicovered after missing for 4 years. They are hyper-local species and only live around an isolated patch of sand dunes along the central Florida ridge. Before 2020, they were last seen in 2016.
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