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TIL That 35% of roads in the United States are unpaved

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vPYLR TIL Kendall Myers and his wife spied on the U.S. for Cuba for 30 years inside the U.S. State Department until they were arrested in their 70s. They never took a penny for their work. They simply didn’t like how the U.S. “treated” Cuba.
J1YMQ TIL, the round symbol with black corners coming from the center of it that are used as fiducial markers in crash test dummies and crash test cars is called the Secchi disk. It was invented in 1865 in an era when automobiles weren't an everyday driving vehicle for the masses.
7r1Rx TIL The daughter of President Richard Nixon married the grandson of President Eisenhower.
Jggm TIL Ronald Reagan once joked on a un-aired NPR broadcast that the US had declared war on Russia, the broadcast was later leaked and caused a portion of the Soviet Army to go on alert for 30 minutes.
wkW TIL That Ford up scaled from Producing One B-24 bomber per day to producing one per Hour during World War II.