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TIL that it snows metal on Venus

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JJlv TIL A recent study showed 25% of US drivers making a turn failed to use signals correctly. 48% of US lane changers failed to use signals. Such failures are responsible for up to 2M preventable accidents a year.
ZplDp TIL A big reason men don’t wear hats like they did in the early 20th century is due to the advent of cars!
GBYN TIL Germany has ‘Tauchgondeln’ [diving gondolas]. They’re tourist attractions where a pressurized room on a pole gets lowered down into the sea. They’re unique to Germany and there are only four of them.
pOvN TIL that the Bananas we eat today are all clones of one another and they might go extinct because there’s no genetic diversity.
BgvLx TIL as our brains develop from age 4 to 36, we tend to judge perpetrators less severely, as we make more room for accidental causes and other circumstantial factors.