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TIL the Hoover Dam was made with enough concrete to build a highway from New York to California

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8epwX TIL about the Ma'kech, also known as a Living Brooch, where an ironclad beetle is painted, adorned with gemstones, and traditionally worn as living jewelry in parts of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
egGb TIL Richard Feynman wrote a heart wrenching letter to his wife years after she passed away, which nobody read until after he passed away
xJbo TIL on this date in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, NC the Wright Brothers had the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.
p8a8G TIL: The decorative tag on running shoe laces is called a dubré or dubrae. Coined in ‘94 by Nike designer Damon Clegg for an ACG boot. Clegg had no name to describe the boot’s ornamental lace tag, so referred to it as a ‘doobrie’ – ‘thingamajig’ in Scottish slang. The name stuck.
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