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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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XYPQ TIL that in 1958, the Navy expected its human-level A.I. “to be finished in about a year at a cost of $100,000.”
XZpQ TIL of the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, aka “The Gates of Hell”, a place so inhospitable that when the MV Dunedin went aground in 1942, passengers were only rescued after another ship ran aground, a big aircraft was damaged on landing, was repaired and crashed again, and several army trucks were lost.
BggQk TIL that the name of Joanna Dark, the protagonist of the Perfect Dark video game series, is a play on the name of French heroine Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc).
R5R9Q TIL after surviving a suicide attempt, the rapper Vanilla Ice took up jet-skiing and reached a world ranking of 6.
a61J TIL that it’s illegal to be fat in Japan