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TIL the first lane marking in California was painted in 1917 by June McCarroll after she was run off the road by a truck. When the County Board ignored her idea of using a white line, she took it upon herself to paint a white line down the middle of the road to prevent similar accidents.

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756Z TIL that Ulysses S. Grant was arrested while serving as President. He was charged, booked, and later released after paying a fine for speeding. On a horse.
x6BN1 TIL about the Italian standard LMG during WW2, designed for alpine climate but used in deserts, it had a violent recoil, clips only held 20 rounds, they had to be oiled before they were inserted, it frequently overheated and exploded, and had a rate of fire comparable to a semi-automatic rifle.
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rp5x TIL of a prankster, who, in 1976 used curtains to cover up the letters in “Hollywood” to “Hollyweed,” the day the state’s relaxed marijuana law took effect. Also, that Easter he made the sign into “Holywood,” and in 1990 made it to “Oilwar,” to make a political statement against the Gulf War.
xV7r7 TIL that when morphine was first synthesized from opium in 1805, one of its early uses was as a “non-addictive” drug to treat people with an addiction to the relatively less addictive opium.