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TIL that electric vehicles typically weigh 20-50% more than gas-powered cars & guardrails do very little to stop EV’s from barreling through barriers

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5ZXR TIL if you bought $100 of bitcoin 7 years ago, you’d be sitting on $72.9 million
M99W TIL - That reindeer aren’t native to Alaska. Sheldon Jackson purchased them from Siberia to help with the food shortages in the late 1800s. He brought in 16 and by the late 1930s there were 640,000.
P5mE TIL: Netflix uses the ‘Chaos Monkey’ which intentionally breaks things on their live site so they are forced to build multiple redundancies in their systems
Lvxv TIL (or more so, remembered) that the US ARMY’s training manual says the “use of force (torture) is a poor technique, as it yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear.”
ANYK4 TIL The United States and the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 which promised the Cherokee people a delegate to the House of Representatives