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TIL when a city in Indiana replaced all their signaled intersections with roundabouts, construction costs dropped $125,000, gas savings reached 24k gallons/year per roundabout, injury accidents dropped 80%, and total accidents dropped 40%.

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4XDNw TIL Harry Truman was the only president who Served in World war 1
6NV8 TIL that when you receive a kidney transplant, it’s placed in a lower abdomen and the failed kidneys are usually not removed, leaving you with three kidneys.
XEKr6 TIL: One housecat (ever) survived spaceflight. Test animal C-341 later renamed Félix and then Félicette was blasted into a suborbital flight on a French rocket in 1963. Seeking to examine her brain for possible space-induced changes, some weeks after her historic flight scientists euthanized her.
b8Dp TIL in the famous Christmas song ‘Twelve days of Christmas’ all the gifts total up to 364 presents, nearly one for every day of the year.
YZMr TIL there is a popular legend that President Howard Taft created baseball’s 7th-inning stretch. When watching a game, the overweight Taft would get sore and stand, and the rest of those in attendance would join him out of respect.