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TIL I learned about the Dutch Reach which is a safer way for car passengers to open doors qhen exiting to prevent them from dooring cyclists.

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wLYA6 TIL that in 2001 while on a holiday trip to Kenya, the plane that Rowan Atkinson and his family were in started to go down after the pilot had passed out. Atkinson managed to take control of the plane before the pilot woke up. The plane landed safely
a8WBb TIL: This year Arizona signed a bill making Pluto the official state planet. Arizona legislators said Pluto was downgraded due to jealous Europeans. Arizona discovered it whereas all prior planets were discovered by Europeans. The bill was a bipartisan effort.
A74g TIL there is only one pig in Afghanistan
0dGK5 TIL about the Bachop brothers, siblings who played rugby together for the New Zealand All Blacks but also against each other for two different nations: Samoa and Japan.
wLA7E TIL on Halloween 1992, a BBC mock documentary "Ghostwatch" was mistaken for a real one amongst most of its 11 million UK viewers (receiving 20,000 complaints about its scary content), and was never broadcast again after that experience