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TIL that the Michigan DOT has names for every one of their snowplows along with mounted cameras and a tracking map so you can track your favorite plow as the season progresses

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j6jnE TIL that the USS Pueblo - a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in January of 1968 is still listed as a commissioned vessel in the US Naval Fleet
QNlKk TIL queen bumblebees are the only bumblebees to survive winter. Since queens are necessary to start colonies in the springtime, killing an existing bee colony (with future queens) can destroy several generations of bumblebees.
1a0oD TIL more people own a phone than a toothbrush
xVZGk TIL KFC only became a success in Japan after a junior store manager lied about whether Kentucky Fried Chicken was a staple of American Christmas
BrrGe TIL flush toilets, urban brick and mortar sewers, paved and graded streets and other aspects of hydraulic/civil engineering were present in the Indus Valley thousands of years before they appeared in the west.