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TIL UPS trucks almost never take left turns, the result of a route-optimization program that has saved an estimated 10 million gallons of gas since 2004.

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VBoM0 TIL Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t wear any prosthetics during the filming of Everything Everywhere All At Once. She specifically decided against it in favor of showing her true body. "I want there to be no concealing of anything. I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11"
Y7BYZ TIL that the word RATIO is semantically related to the word RATIOnal, so an irRATIOnal number is a number that cannot be expressed as a RATIO of two integers. (Sorry for the reworded repost. My last post had the etymology wrong, but apparently it's worth reposting because it helped a lot of people!)
N7AdP TIL about Kenny brack, a former Indy racing car driving who got into a crash & experiencing a declaration of 214g, holding the record for surving the highest G force experienced by a human. It also made his body 214 times Heavier for a fraction of second, weighing 15 tonnes.
kOgj5 TIL Boston police sent letters to 3,800 people wanted on charges ranging from shoplifting to drug dealing and invited them to be extras for a movie. 54 showed up, were met by officers posing as employees of a fictitious production company & escorted onto buses which took them to police headquarters
AWMx TIL that the probability of human extinction by Molecular nanotechnology weapons or Superintelligent AI before year 2100 has been put at 5%.