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TIL that before the interstate highway system was established, it took a military convoy 62 days to cross the United States from coast to coast.

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xVOOD TIL that during WWI, the Germans tried to convince the Allied soldiers at Dunkirk to surrender using propaganda leaflets dropped from the air. The soldiers used these leaflets as toilet paper.