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TIL the PX symbol commonly seen on pill bottles in American Film/TV is actually Rx, used for prescriptions

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16Jk8 TIL As recent as 2020, the US was still awarding purple heart medals that had been produced in 1945 in preparation for the invasion of Japan.
R7EL9 TIL Carmel, a city in Indiana, has the highest number of traffic roundabouts in the US. Since late 1990s the city has built 125 roundabouts.
yDre TIL: The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad was known as the “Little Giant"since the tonnage that it moved was out of proportion to its route mileage. It operated around one tenth of one percent of the nation’s railroad miles, it hauled around one percent of its tonnage.
VBp18 TIL in WWII a killed US service member had a 19% chance of never having their body recovered
j6nXM TIL 73 years ago, San Benedicto rock wren became extinct when the island they lived on erupted.