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TIL: Kentucky and Missouri are the only neighboring states that have no direct road connection

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8evLb TIL that Abraham Lincoln - a fearsome wrestler as a young man - once wrestled the county champion outside the store where he worked, as the whole town looked on. When his opponent began cheating, Lincoln picked the man up and flung him to the ground, knocking him out and starting an all-out brawl.
ADrMl TIL the Mission Command Center, used by NASA for such missions as the Apollo 11 moon landing, was built by Philco-Ford, a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company.
W79MB TIL the US box office for the James Bond film No Time to Die was $160,891,007.
VMp1p TIL that farmers in USA are hacking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware, which seems to be the only way to actually own the machines and their software, rather than rent them for lifetime from John Deere.
JYwQj TIL the Pink Floyd single "Another Brick in the Wall" and the album "The Wall" were banned in South Africa in 1980 after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the apartheid regime