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[TIL] Pregnancy Tests are one of the most shoplifted items in the U.S.

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xv8D TIL in Asian languages such as Chinese, dyslexia is much less common, and involves different brain mechanism than dyslexia in western languages.
M7J5B TIL the loud thumping air pressure changes in a moving car when a single window is rolled down is called Helmholtz Resonance. This also occurs when air is blown into the mouth of an empty bottle.
d8KWQ TIL George Lucas thought Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" would out perform Star Wars so he proposed they trade 2.5% of the profit on each other's films; Spielberg took the trade, and still receives 2.5% of the profits from Star Wars.
xVGZw TIL that there is a link between regular Benadryl usage & the risk of getting dementia.
neXdd TIL that Jeannette Rankin was the first women voted into the United States congress, famously before US women were allowed the right to vote. As of today, she remains the only woman Montana has elected to Congress.