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TIL mandatory helmets in cars would have a greater benefit than mandatory helmets for bicyclists

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PZgn TIL Kirk Douglas is alive and well and will be 100 years old in December next year
d8n09 TIL that according to historical accounts, cats liking fish -that isn't part of their main diet and they can't catch themselves- comes from the fact that ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats by offering them fish.
4kPLN TIL Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were Victorian cross-dressers and homosexual men from upper-middle-class families. Their trial and acquittal were a "significant moment in the history of the hesitant emergence of a public discourse of the homosexual as an identity."
0wZ6j TIL of a Brazilian cannibal couple that killed two women and sold their flesh stuffed in meat pies for unsuspecting people in the city
VBraQ TIL (from Injustice) that SHAZAM in DC is apparently an acronym. wisdom of Solomon, strength of Hercules, stamina of Atlas, power of Zeus, courage of Achilles, and speed of Mercury.