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TIL 20% of the United States' roads are in poor condition. This includes the 32% of urban pavements that are in bad shape.

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R5Nll TIL that Marc Bolan of T.Rex ad-libbed the line “Meanwhile, I'm still thinking” at the end of the band’s 1971 song “Bang a Gong (Get It On), because he originally desired to record Chuck Berry’s song “Little Queenie”. The line “Meanwhile, I’m still thinking” came from that Chuck Berry song.
x67Pb TIL the University of Melbourne hosted an academic event dedicated to Taylor Swift's influence called Swiftposium.
j6JVN TIL Hitler's infamous Eagle's Nest mountaintop retreat survived the war and is now a restaurant and inn. It is reached using a 124m elevator drilled into the mountain
Yp1nr TIL that in June 1982 British Airways Flight 9 (callsign Speedbird 9) managed to land safely in Jakarta with no casualties, despite having accidentally flown into a volcanic ash cloud that shut down all four engines and sandblasted the windscreen
pDGp TIL A man who tried to fake his own kidnap and murder was found out when he failed to attach enough helium balloons to the gun he used to shoot himself with.