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TIL that many regions in the US, most recently being the state of Hawaii, have tried solving their homeless problem by providing one-way plane tickets out of the area.

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j6r1R TIL that the wheel has been around for more than 5000 years
oO98 TIL since the 1990s, Carmel, Indiana has been replacing all signaled intersections with roundabouts. Benefits include gas savings of 24k gallons/year per roundabout; construction costs $125,000 less per intersection; injury accidents dropped by 80 percent and total accidents dropped by 40 percent.
E1Ygx TIL among the thousands of men on the Normandy beaches on D-Day there was one single woman. Martha Gellhorn, a rogue war correspondent who stowed away in the toilet of a hospital ship and also happened to be the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.
p1vO TIL that Joe Son, an actor who played Random Task in Austin Powers, is currently serving a life sentence without parole
QJNEd TIL Disney almost bought Universal Studios back in the early 2000s