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TIL the interstate system was meant to run BETWEEN cities, not THROUGH them. President Eisenhower got the highways built, but he said putting them inside cities "was entirely against his original concept and wishes."

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OoDna TIL of professional "fired men" that were used as department store scapegoats who were fired several times a day to please costumers who were disgruntled about some error
D1V7D TIL that the New Mexico territory was often considered for statehood in the 19th century but was never approved. One attempt in 1905 included merging with Arizona under the name 'Montezuma'. The following year the same merger was suggested under the name 'Arizona'. Arizona rejected the option.
wedE TIL There is a Star Wars trading card of C-3PO in which C-3PO appears with an enormous erection. Even today nobody knows how this omission happened.
ANwA4 TIL A man who called his ex-girlfriend 1,011 times in a few weeks, hired two companies to put up missing posters of the woman around Vancouver and created fake social media accounts for her received a suspended sentence and three years’ probation for criminal harassment
Obrg TIL that in 1346 during the siege of Kafa, Mongol forces used plague victims as biological weapons, by flinging the infected corpses over castle walls with catapults. It worked.