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TIL that is illegal to run out of gas on the German Autobahn.

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N794J TIL that Pete Davidson helped Alec Baldwin loose 100lbs by giving him a fake workout routine because he “didn’t want to be rude and say, ‘I just still have metabolism. I’m not in my mid-50s.’ I just wake up like this.”
a8Or0 TIL Michelin Tire Co. created the Michelin Guide and star ratings for restaurants in the 1900s to boost adoption of automobiles and, by extension, their tires.
GA58g TIL the "whoopee cushion" has actually been around since ancient times and there was even a Roman emperor known for tricking guests into sitting on one.
Oo9ke TIL scientists reverse engineered a natural memory by mapping the brain circuits underlying its formation, then “trained” another animal by stimulating brain cells in the pattern of the natural memory, which created an artificial memory that was indistinguishable from the natural one.
GY8DE TIL about the wind phone (Kaze no Denwa), a telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, where visitors can hold one-way conversations with deceased loved ones as a way to process their grief.