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

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VMMnk TIL the extension ladder was invented by 16 year old Henry Quackenbush who later went on to invent the modern nutcracker.
wrP1 TIL, a parchment manuscript was erased by a 13th-century monk to write a Christian liturgical text. The erased manuscript was originally written by Archimedes and contained some of the fundamentals of modern calculus, which wouldn’t be developed for almost another 2,000 years.
a8gj0 TIL about a man found dead on an Australian beach in 1948, with all the labels from his clothes removed, and a paper piece with the phrase "Tamam Shud" ("It is finished") sewn into his pocket. Later an undeciphered code was found from a book belonging to him. His identity remains unknown.
X0orX TIL that as the reigning monarch of 14 countries, King Charles III is allowed to travel without a passport and drive without a license.
0GY1 TIL burning man is destroying the only suitable land speed record track in the US and is causing significant environmental damage to the fragile desert