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TIL 84% of vegetarians go back to eating meat

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gyk8 TIL that U.S. Route 491 had its name changed from Route 666 in 2003 after people petitioned the American Association of State Highway & Transport Officials as they believed altering the name might lift the curse that many thought had been placed on the road.
gMKb9 TIL a fire station burnt down in Norfolk, England in 2014 because it didn't have sprinklers.
a8Qd9 TIL that shrapnel is named after Henry Shrapnel, the inventor of the exploding cannonball.
1a8o4 TIL Mosquitoes caused the death of almost half of all people who have ever lived
woVD8 TIL President John Tyler, America's tenth president, would later get elected to a seat in the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.