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TIL The USA throws away the equivalent of 125 school busses full of plastic drinking straws on a daily basis.

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a8E7J TIL that during WWII, Ford's mile-long assembly line at ‘Willow Run Plant” produced B-24’s at a peak rate of nearly one every hour (~63min). A symbol of American industrial might, exemplifying how industry (and some 6 Million women) pivoted to support the war effort, vital to Allied victory:
WkxG9 TIL that honeybees can identify male drones born of incest and will eat them alive once they hatch
M7Jx8 TIL when Senator Harrison of Mississippi's campaign manager asked Senator Bilbo of Mississippi to support Harrison for Senate Majority Leader, Bilbo said that Harrison had to ask him personally. Harrison replied that he wouldn't talk to Bilbo even if it meant the Presidency. Harrison lost by 1 vote.
6EOQm TIL William Blythe died in a one-vehicle car accident when the vehicle overturned and threw him into a ditch, where he drowned. Blythe was on his way to Arkansas from Chicago to pick up his 5th wife, Virginia, and her unborn son Bill, who would later go on to become the 42nd President.
l7lNN TIL that snails can sleep for three years.