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TIL Houston spent 2.8 billion dollars expanding the freeway to 23 lanes only to slow traffic down by 30%

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R908 TIL that the prophet Muhammad married his third wife, Aisha, when she was 6 (or 7) years old and he was 53. Their marriage was consummated when she was 9 years old.
PYXeG TIL That in 1998 a woman from Tennessee was elected Democratic State Senator as a write-in candidate after the original Democratic candidate, her husband, was assassinated by his opponent 2 weeks before the election. She won 95% of votes and 3 subsequent elections before retiring undefeated in 2013
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