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TIL That water can have an ice that's so crystal clear. A lake among High Tatras Mountains in Slovakia has it.

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VMgnk TIL ruts leftover from the wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trial, are still visible today.
Bgky TIL that the ‘irrational’ urge of a slave to escape his master was medically referred to as Drapetomania. A common prescription was removal of the big toes.
4XopN TIL the Union army once commandeered a boat to move 111 (unwilling) prostitutes to Louisville to stop VD spreading in their Nashville garrison. The Louisville authorities turned it away, as did everyone else, so after 28 days afloat it was forced to return to Nashville to disembark the furious girls
kOLlm TIL the standards for “Made in America” tags only require 50% American material and final assembly in the US.
v1kp8 TIL, 11 GM buses were used for filming the 1994 film Speed. While the ramp gap jump was filmed in one take, some other buses had the front cut off for filming of inside shots of the bus. These scenes took place on California freeways.