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TIL the Lincoln Highway (1910s) made driving across America easier. However, muddy or flooded roads were expected and drivers needed camping gear. The road guide included tips for each town. E.g. Fish Springs, Utah travelers could "build a sagebrush fire" for a local team to find/rescue them.

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Eg1Bp TIL that Steve McQueen was on Charles Manson’s ‘Hit List’ and was meant to be assassinated like Sharon Tate in 1969
4XZ9a TIL about Jack Churchill, a soldier in WW2 that went into battle carrying a sword, a bow and arrows, and a bagpipe.
9YkjB TIL about Melanesia Sergeant Major Jacob Vouza who was captured by the Japanese, hung from a tree and beaten with rifles, tied to a red ant hill, bayonetted seven times in the chest and once in the throat, but still managed to chew through his restraints and deliver news of the impending attack
8W0X TIL the DEA officer investigating the Silk Road was indicted and arrested for running an elaborate series of rackets and thefts on DPR and silk road.
OoRba TIL of the Walleye War, a fishing dispute that took place in Minnesota in the 1990s and nearly resulted in a portion of the US being ceded to Canada.