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TIL since May 5, 2018, every new vehicle sold in the US is required to be equipped with a backup camera as a standard feature.

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5YxkP TIL Bud Abbott, of Abbott and Costello, quit school at the age of ten. One of his first jobs was shilling for a house of mirrors on Coney Island, when people inevitably got lost in the maze of mirrors he would charge 10 cents to guide them out.
4oPa TIL Dogs can see sadness in humans and often attempt to make their owners happy by initiating cuddling.
wLknW TIL Sperm Whales are the loudest animal in the world. They have been recorded producing noises over 230 decibels. It can be very dangerous for humans to swim with them due to how loud they are.
W70Dd TIL that during ww2 the Japanese had bombed the also un-contacted cousins of the Sentinelese people, the Jarawa people live nearby and they only established voluntary contact with outsiders in the 1990’s.
pBBQ TIL there is a play by Samuel Beckett called “Play”, that has the stage direction ‘repeat play’ at the end of the script, meaning that the play is theoretically never-ending