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TIL about America’s Marine Highway, a United States Department of Transportation initiative aiming to use the United States’ 29,000 miles of navigable waterways to alleviate traffic and wear to the nation’s highways caused by tractor trailer traffic.

by whatilearned May 28, 2023, 6:09 pm

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TIL Oregon’s largest coastal city has only 16,000 residents, despite there being 4.2m people in the state and over 350 miles of coastline

by whatilearned May 25, 2023, 10:19 pm

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TIL the Apollo 10 Mission was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Astronauts Stafford and Cernan descended to about 8 miles above the moon. The lunar module they flew was capable of landing, but their mission was to photograph the landing site for Armstrong and Aldrin two months later.

by whatilearned May 18, 2023, 7:27 pm

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TIL that 7,000 years ago a vast lake, known as Lake Mega Chad covered much of the current Sahara desert in north-central Africa. At more than 400,000 square kilometers (150,000 square miles) at its peak, it was larger than the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake on Earth today.

by whatilearned May 18, 2023, 3:36 am

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TIL The baby Sacajawea carried for 2000 miles was Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was delivered by Meriwether Lewis, raised by William Clark, lived in a German castle for six years, spoke four languages, was a military scout, fur tapper and gold miner. He’s buried in an Oregon ghost town.

by whatilearned May 12, 2023, 2:30 am

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TIL- “The Pale Blue Dot” photo was taken on February 14, 1990 by Voyager 1 nearly 4 billion miles away from our Earth. “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”

by whatilearned May 8, 2023, 8:51 am

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TIL about the “Loneliest Tree on Earth,” a Sitka spruce on Campbell Island, over 170 miles from the nearest tree. It was planted by a lonely meteorologist in 1907.

by whatilearned May 7, 2023, 3:11 am

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TIL the longest traffic jam in history lasted for 12 days. It occurred in China in 2010 on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway and stretched for over 62 miles (100km).

by whatilearned April 29, 2023, 9:04 am

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I was hitchhiking. A guy picked me up. A few miles down the road we were pulled over by a state trooper.

by cringeyjokesman April 22, 2023, 5:31 pm

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TIL In 1971, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon. He made four swings, “a shank” with the third, and on the fourth swing he caught the ball flush. “Miles and miles and miles,” he said to the TV audience

by whatilearned April 22, 2023, 12:44 am

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TIL in 1981 American Airlines offered a “lifetime unlimited AAirpass” for a lifetime of free first class flights for $250k. You could get an additional lifetime pass for a companion for an extra $150k. Two of their most frequent fliers cost the airline $1m a year and flew over 30m miles.

by whatilearned April 19, 2023, 4:59 pm

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TIL that you’re never more than 115 miles from a Mcdonald’s Restaurant in the continental U.S.

by whatilearned April 17, 2023, 8:03 pm

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