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TIL that adding a new road to a traffic network can sometimes make everyone’s commute longer, due to Braess' Paradox.

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ra80 TIL that Gutzon Borglum, the designer of the Mount Rushmore National Monument, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and that the Ku Klux Klan helped fund the monument.
5Y5RP TIL Charlie Brown repeats the line “I got a rock” in the 1966 special “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”. This caused an overwhelming viewer response leading to bags and boxes of candy being sent to creator Charles Schulz “just for Charlie Brown.”
nRjB TIL that fans were so fanatical about ‘Star Trek’ that they made Gene Roddenberry nervous. The TV show’s creator said “It frightens me when I learn of 10,000 people treating a Star Trek script as if it were Scripture. I certainly didn’t write Scripture”
BZJr TIL in the 1938 the Spanish created Abstract Art prison cells and used them to commit psychological torture.
1RoP TIL that in 1924, chess player and Russian world champion Richard Réti played 29 blindfold chess games simultaneously, then forgot his briefcase at the event when he left.