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TIL that one heavily-loaded truck can do more damage to a road surface than 10,000 passenger cars.

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p5Wp TIL America has been at war for 222 out of 239 years of existence.
b6Bep TIL it was so difficult for the FBi to believe Hitler had committed suicide that they funded a secret program by millions of dollars to find him, with the program being shut down only in 1947
L0OQ TIL The United States ranks number 1 in number of internet hosts with 505 million. Number 2 is Japan with 64.5 million.
N7oEE Like clockwork, every 26 seconds, seismometers across multiple continents have detected a mysterious pulse since at least the early 1960s, and no one knows why.
RrwQ TIL The cost of college textbooks has risen 812% in the past 30 years—that’s more than healthcare costs, housing prices, and college tuitions, all of which have risen faster than the rate of inflation.