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TIL Thomas Macdonald is one of the people most responsible for the American highway system. He oversaw construction of over 3.5 million miles of road, serving under seven different presidents. He has been compared to J Edgar Hoover in terms of the political power he had in Washington.

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wLARY TIL why the sky is blue. White light (which is made up of all the colors) comes from the sun, and hits our atmosphere, which breaks it apart. Blue light has a higher frequency than most other colors, so it scatters much faster, filling our skies.
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