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TIL that the Ho Chi Minh trail was not simply a few footpaths but a network of tracks wide enough to drive trucks along, and multiple oil pipelines that by the end of the war had supplied 270,000 tonnes of petroleum to troops in southern Vietnam

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x4Q7 TIL that the “Where’s the beef?” Wendy’s advertising campaign of 1984 ended in 1985 when the actress performed in a commercial for Prego pasta sauce, saying that she “finally found” the beef.
OR9X TIL of the Georgia Guidestones. The mysterious monoliths are inscribed in 12 languages with 10 guidelines, including “keeping world population below 500 million”
R5071 TIL that bugs called Eyelash mites live on our eyelashes, feeding on dead skin and oil and acting as a cleaner for our bodies
OkxL TIL the US temporarily had universal child care during World War II to support working mothers. In 1971, Congress passed a bill that would have provided it permanently, only to have it vetoed by Richard Nixon at the urging of Pat Buchanan.
Z8dO4 TIL that the Nazi-collaborationist government of France ironically held an entire trial to blame the generals of the democratically elected French Third Republic for losing the Battle of France to the Nazis in 1940.