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TIL Crash test dummies cost $1million

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bpMp TIL that the “Somebody Else’s Problem” cloaking field described in the “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is based on a real psychological effect.
69or8 TIL after butchering their oxen for meat and nearly dying of thirst, William Manly led a wagon out of a valley in California and when leaving someone in the group turned to say "Goodbye, Death Valley!" The name stuck.
MeD60 TIL Alexander the Great wept when he heard Anaxarchus teach about an infinite number of worlds. When his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"
bmQ TIL Bo Peep was omitted from Toy Story 3 because she would not have survived the incinerator scene, being made of porcelain.
MeO5K TIL that the enzyme bromelain in pineapples literally digest the tissues in your mouth, hence the sore mouth feeling when you eat pineapples.