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TIL the reason that some semi-truck trailer doors have quilted patterns on their rear doors is to reduce glare on the vehicles following them.

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KQ84 TIL US President Andrew Jackson had been shot so many times people said he “rattled like a bag of marbles.”
8eMjL TIL that convinced of inevitable war with the USA, Canada's first Prime Minister called for an army of Sikhs to invade California on behalf of Canada.
xVMOD TIL when a 30-yr-old woman in Canada was shot in her left breast, her silicone breast implant deflected the bullet away from her vital organs; her injuries were only broken ribs and damaged implants. It's the first recorded incident of a breast implant deflecting a bullet.
ADb5l TIL that up until 1942 the minimum age of marriage for girls in Australia was 12.
6ExDX TIL Winston Churchill was in New York on Black Friday, the crash of 1929, having invested (and lost) the royalties for a book he was writing. He wrote, "I expected to see pandemonium, but the spectacle that met my eyes was one of surprising calm and orderliness."