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TIL that toll roads in Illinois were only supposed to be open for 40 years to pay off bonds by 1990.

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M7XE8 TIL the director Tony Kaye of American History X was regarded as unemployable by Hollywood because the studio wanted Edward Norton's cut which had an additional 18 minutes of footage. Kaye took out $100k in ads condemning Norton and studio and tried changing his name in the credits to Humpty Dumpty
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R0x1 TIL that a Nazi Weather Station was discovered in Canada in the 1970’s
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