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TIL the US Dept of Transportation values a human life at 13.7 million dollars in a statistical sense, when evaluating potential safety standards.

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Z1no TIL that the Beatles album, ‘Revolver’ was almost named 'After Geography’ (credits to Ringo), to contrast with the Rolling Stones album, 'Aftermath’.
yQ94e TIL that pork is a "red meat" for nutritional studies (which tie red meat consumption to heart disease and cancer), and the "other white meat" phrase was just a marketing campaign by the pork industry.
DQogD TIL in the early 2000s Disney released a series of 3 Eurobeat albums. The albums contained Eurobeat remixes of various classic Disney songs. They were exclusive to Japan.
0aMN TIL that the ice cream cone was first created at the 1904 World’s Fair. An ice cream cart ran out of dishes to serve ice cream, so the neighboring waffle-maker rolled the waffles into cones to serve the ice cream in.
jNDXa TIL Disney employs the use of sentinel chickens to determine if the mosquito population in the area is carrying any diseases