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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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d8g0d TIL In a major breakthrough in bovine linguistic research, experts have confirmed that cows moo with accents distinct to their herd.
manM TIL: The number of homeschooled children increased by 61.8% in the last 10 years.
negb7 TIL that the first self help book was called Self-Help and was written by Dr. Samuel Smiles who coined the phrase "God helps those who help themselves."
696mm TIL about Dinolingo, a language app designed for children, which launched the same year as Duolingo
6n88 TIL that in WWII there actually was a land battle fought in US territory, the Battle of Attu, the westernmost Aleutian Island.