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TIL that Interstate 19 in Arizona is the only highway in the United States to post distances solely in kilometers.

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Br7pb TIL The Old Farmers Almanac has about an 80% accuracy track record. They have been keeping track of monthly weather averages since Washington was president.
yW1V TIL the film ‘Boyhood’ is rated 15+ in Britain, R in the US, and 6 or over in Germany
MlLa TIL Australia’s Channel 9 put watermarks across the middle of their video footage to prevent Channel 7 from using their material. It didn’t work.
W76OY TIL that the earliest refutation of UFOs was written in the 9th century by Agobard of Lyon, who wrote against the claims of peasants that ‘sky sailors’ were coming to steal their crops in his treatise ‘On Hail and Thunder’
R5wkj TIL as of 1959 the International Foot (unit) used by Americans is calculated using the metric system