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TIL that Compton, CA has a drive-thru funeral home that’s bulletproof. It’s a popular place for gang member funerals.

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jNGWM TIL Jack Fishman, co-created naloxone in 1961, but it was not widely used for decades. He died in 2013 before seeing the full impact of the crisis and how his invention saved so many lives
601w TIL the naked mole-rat is the only eusocial, thermoconforming mammal, they are highly insensitive to pain, very resistant to cancer, and a single potato can last a colony up to 7 years
loZJr TIL at the start of 2020 Windows XP still had an over 40% share of the Armenian market.
oBLor TIL that there's a term for an altitude where there pressure is so low that the boiling temperature for water is the same as normal human body temperature and exposure will cause all of your bodily fluids (minus your blood) to be boiled off, causing death. Armstrong's Limit/Line. Roughly 60k-62k'.
VMmwG TIL that astronaut Chris Hadfield was temporarily blinded in 2001 during a spacewalk. He was blinded by a drop of a mixture of oil and soap solution that got in his eye. The solution is used to keep the visors on an astronaut's helmet fog-free.