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TIL Earth's magnetic field was approximately twice as strong in Roman times as it is now

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BgQPL TIL that the East Los Angeles Interchange, located in Boyle Heights, California, is the busiest freeway interchange in the world. Handling over 550,000 cars a day.
a8JRZ TIL Disney World in Florida, USA contains a critical corridor that wildlife like Florida panthers use to travel across central Florida. Though construction blocked wildlife, Walt Disney had designed a corridor going through the park which remains today.
XEDLk TIL Corona never paid to be in Fast and the Furious but received an estimated $15 million in free advertising.
nA1b TIL a 21 year old college student, Maura Murray, mysteriously vanished in Feb 2004 after she wrecked and abandoned her car in the New Hampshire White Mountain area. Only 3 minutes passed between being last seen and an office arriving to find she was gone. She has never been found or heard from since
9oVB TIL that Kathryn Beaumont was 13-15 years old when she voiced Alice and Wendy in the original 1950s animated Disney films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). She returned 50 years later to voice the same characters in 2002 for KingdomHearts at the age of 64.