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TIL that I must quit listening to music

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4Jba TIL a study in Australia found that using roundabouts instead of stop signs/signals resulted in a 75 percent reduction in injury collisions, a 90 percent reduction in fatality collisions, and when long term costs were considered cost around the same.
5Yb7p TIL that the priests in the ancient Nazca civilization had their skulls tightly wrapped between boards in their childhood to push the bones upwards, producing elongated craniums which made them look like aliens.
4kenN TIL the current head of the Tokugawa samurai family, which ruled Japan for over 250 years as an isolationist shogunate, grew up in the US and married a Vietnamese woman
rNKdx TIL the East German border guard who escaped to West Germany during the contruction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 later hanged himself in his orchard
Y71Y7 TIL that voice actress Dionne Quan, noted for roles like Trixie Tang in Fairly OddParents, is legally blind and has all of her scripts written in braille.