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TIL that the entire US-Canada border is defined by a 20 ft. deforested area called "The Slash".

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oZ4E TIL Anyone in the US Military system can send classified evidence of wrongdoing to their congressional representative if reporting it up their chain of command fails to produce results
R8BQ TIL brass doorknobs disinfect themselves in about eight hours.
16DV TIL - the guy who used to hold up the John 3:16 sign at football games is in prison for life
0Zdv TIL- Doctor ignaz discovered that by washing his hands between delivering babys cut the mortality rate of infection from 35% to less than 1%. His ideas were rejected by the medical community and upset other doctors so much they put him in a insane asylum. He was beaten to death 14 days later
5ZG9 TIL Orville Wright lived until 1948, and his last flight was in a Lockheed Constellation. He witnessed the creation of the first rocket and jet propulsion.