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TIL on a 12ft wide 30mph road you are 50% more likely to get into an accident than a 9ft lane.

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E1WYd TIL in 1932 both Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower used six M1917 tanks and an infantry division to run over and drive out WW1 veterans who occupied DC. They were demanding to be paid their bonus they received in 1924 but which could not be redeemed until 1948.
E1PmP TIL bulletproof glass can be manufactured to be bulletproof one way, but allow you to shoot through it the other way.
5b4R TIL: Romans used to crush 4 million mollusk shells to create one pound of purple pigment; This is why the color Purple is associated with Royalty as only the Kings could afford that color
jN0vM TIL that Protestant Reformation leader, Martin Luther, was an anti-Semite who denounced and urged the persecution of Jews
45A5 TIL many german cities have artificial hills known as Schuttberge, created after WWII to deal with the debris of the destroyed buildings