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TIL: That your car speedometer could show an error of almost ten km/h

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p8aeN TIL that there are poop banks that will pay you for your stools. The stool samples are processed and are used to treat people suffering from infections of C. difficile -- a bacteria that causes severe gastrointestinal distress. Dedicated poopers can make up to $13,000 a year.
kb14 TIL that scientists have discovered why some people can thrive on less sleep than others. A particular gene variant is responsible, and those with it can also handle extended periods of sleeplessness better.
9wrR6 TIL that while Florida accounts for 9% of America’s insurance claims, it accounts for 79% of the nation’s home insurance lawsuits.
Wkg9o TIL the man who wrote the Klingon language also wrote the Atlantean language for Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire,” and the lead character was physically modeled after him.
GAmZ4 TIL Richard Nixon's foreign policy known as "Madman Theory" revolved around the idea of acting as irrational and volatile as possible as to make irrational and suicidal threats seem feasible.