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TIL Gravel and crushed stone are two different things, with different properties and uses, and aren’t always interchangeable.

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JkVj TIL that the city of Cincinnati, Ohio has an subway system that was built, never used, and left abandoned
y1Qw TIL that a 59-year-old man entered a hospital complaining of chest pains, and was found to have a three-chambered reptilian heart, as opposed to a four-chambered mammalian one.
d8VQ8 TIL Barnum and Bailey’s circus was so logistically efficient that prior to WWI the U.S. War Department would periodically send army officers to travel with them and study their transportation methods in order to improve the logistics of the army’s own artillery service (Davis, 2003, p. 78).
4LD6 TIL Franklin W. Dixon, author of The Hardy Boys, DOESN’T EXIST. It’s just a nom de plume given to various ghostwriters.
oRyd7 TIL that the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia, displays artifacts from past relationships that ended. The exhibits, contributed by people worldwide, tell unique stories of love, loss, and closure, offering a poignant insight into the universal experiences of breakups and moving on.