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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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kOjR4 TIL about Beate Sirota, an Austrian-born Jew raised in Japan. She was educated at the German School of Tokyo for six years, but her parents deemed it "too Nazi" and moved her to the American school. She helped write the Japanese constitution in 1946 ensuring equality for women is enshrined in law.
oPgr TIL some spiders have natural metals built into their fangs. And one, the wandering spider, has fangtips that are almost entirely metal.
QJwME TIL Mountain goats that attacked humans because they are addicted to the salt in human urine and sweat had to be airlifted out to a different park
1aVpd TIL in 2012 an extreme solar storm missed Earth by 9 days that could have caused nearly $2.5 trillion dollars in damage and loss of power for years on end. There is a 12% chance of a solar storm with the same magnitude to hit us in the next decade.
xVwy0 TIL in 1977, Ben Cohen was a struggling potter & Jerry Greenfield was getting rejected by medical schools. The pair decided to open a bagel shop, but the cost of bagel machines was too high. As a result, they enrolled in a $5 ice cream making course instead. A year later, they created Ben & Jerry's