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TIL that in 2018, after a tanker truck fire shut down a freeway in Los Angeles, a taco truck opened up on the freeway

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aKOM TIL of the Confederate Memorial Fountain in Helena, Montana which wasn’t formally recognized as a territory until 1864 and didn’t become a state until 1889. Confederate troops never came within 1,000 miles of the area
pLPO TIL that John Adams’s daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy without anesthesia in 1811
Zx0a TIL if you write to the Department of the Interior you can get a free buffalo.
16JK7 TIL for 50+ years, Australian children in the outback attended school via shortwave radio and sent homework via air mail due to the distance between homes. "Schools of the Air" were many children's first social experience outside their families; its quality equaled or surpassed traditional schools'.
xVBAb TIL that in 1946, George Kennan, then USA's deputy head of mission in Moscow, sent a 8000 worded "Long Telegram", which became the basis of US approach towards USSR is the Cold War. He warned US of Kremlin's expansionist dreams, which, if unchecked, would shatter the principals on which US stands.