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TIL that America already had a transcontinental highway by 1913, The Lincoln Highway, that ran from Times Square to Lincoln Park in San Francisco

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m1POo TIL, in Bhutan, people do not recognize, and many do not know, their individual birthdays. Everyone in the country turns another year older together each January 1st.
rN60w TIL that part of the profit of the English East India Company's first expedition to the Indian Ocean came from the seizure and loot of a Portuguese galleon
78AWx TIL that when Christopher Mintz-Plasse filmed Superbad, his mother was required by law to be on set during his sex scene as he was still a minor at the time.
40j6 TIL that the Guinness World Records stopped awarding the fattest cats or any other animal to discourage deliberate overfeeding
5YNwn TIL during WW2 after the Nazis had taken over France, Churchill made the decision to attack the French naval fleet rather than let it fall into enemy hands. The bombardment killed nearly 2,000 men. France then severed all diplomatic relations with the UK and even mounted several retaliation attacks.