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TIL after a neo-Nazi group adopted a half-mile stretch of highway in Missouri, the state renamed it the “Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway”

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0wOO1 TIL the first US nuclear sub had to stop in San Francisco and buy 170qts of car radiator "stop leak" to finish their under-the-arctic mission.
mxrLO today i learned not to pepper spray myself in the face
61vm TIL that the flag of Nova Scotia was only officially adopted in 2013, even after 155 years of use, when an 11 year-old girl researching a project realized that it had never been officially recognized in all that time.
dBJj TIL that beer hops naturally produce an acid that can kill off a parasitic mite known to annihilate entire colonies of bees. Hops have shown such promise to helping Colony Collapse Disorder, that the EPA has even approved their use as a biochemical miticide.
BO5k TIL Sloths are three times faster in water than on land and can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.