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TIL in 1996, surveyor Mike Tate got a side street in NC renamed for the band Anthrax. After the 2001 Anthrax attacks, town residents were suddenly uncomfortable with the name and petitioned to have it changed.

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4XOG5 TIL the US and UK intentionally avoided the Geneva conventions to avoid accountability for the mistreatment of German POWs, instead designating them 'Disarmed Enemy Forces'. This lead to large, wired in enclosures with poor shelter and other necessities, and prohibited the Red Cross from intervening
Y718r TIL the Central Arizona Project is a 336 mi (541 km) canal in Arizona which. diverts water from the Colorado River. Annually, 456 billion gallons (1.4 million acre feet) of water is lifted 2,900 feet by 14 pumps using 2.5 million MWh of electricity each year, making it the largest power user in Ariz
QJYKL TIL the Graf Zeppelin was the first airship to offer commercial transatlantic flights, to cross the Pacific without stops, to circumnavigate the world, and to travel over a million miles.
E1JD0 TIL about the Eisriesenwelt, a natural limestone and ice cave in Austria. It is the largest ice cave in the world, extending more than 42km and the frozen lake inside the cave, during the Second World War, was used by skating athletes to train for the Olympics.
OG7ka TIL that Cessna produce the most amount of any aircraft with 418 models and 72755 aircraft registered with the FAA. Next is Piper 44583, Beech 17523, Cirrus 8298 and Boeing 6420. (Ranked by the total number of aircraft of any model by a given manufacturer. )