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TIL the character “e” is both a letter and a number.

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4kN6J TIL: Helium, the kind we suck from balloons at parties, is a finite, non-renewable resource that’s only recoverable in a few locations around the world. It’s also needed for MRIs, microchips, and fiber optic cables.
4X75X TIL In New Mexico, at a quarter-mile section of Route 66, the rumble strips have been engineered to sound like the song “America the Beautiful” if you drive exactly at 45 mph over them
rRjdd TIL of Springfield Missouri's Great Cobra Scare of 1953 when 11 cobras got loose in the Route 66 town.
kJGQB TIL of Cape Disappointment in South Georgia, discovered by an expedition led by Captain Cook who named it so after realizing that he had discovered an island and not a continent
7v9x TIL The doctor who performed the “study” purported to show the soul weighs 21 grams removed all data that did not support his hypothesis. In fact, only 1 cadaver supposedly lost weight.