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TIL the average American will spend more than 12 full weeks of their life sitting in traffic. 42 hours per year x 48 working years = 12 weeks. (Plus traffic from your non-working years!)

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nWL8Y TIL: When You’re Sleep-Deprived, Your Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself
KYAGw TIL the Qing dynasty of China forced their male subjects to wear a hairstyle called the Queue. It featured a long braid and a shaved front of the head. Cutting the queue became seen as a symbol of rebellion against the empire.
GA594 TIL Victoria Drummond was the first female maritime engineer and served on various commercial vessels. During WWII, an old freighter she served on came under attack by German bombers. She managed to exceed the old top speed of the ship by 50% during the attack, which helped with evasive maneuvers.
LQeEp TIL about the 1822 massacre on the Greek island of Chios by Ottoman empire troops that killed up to 50,000 people
6Ejaw TIL Alcatraz's prison guards created the myths about man eating sharks and deadly waters of San Francisco to discourage prisoners from escaping. There is only one recorded shark fatality in San Francisco in 1959