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TIL that painting the tops of school buses white dropped interior temperature 10°F on avg. during the summer, with as much as a 17° difference at peak hours. Wintertime temperatures only lowered by 3 to 4°.

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abEL TIL that the FBI learned two of its informants were planning to murder a rival gangster. The FBI didn’t intervene, and the man was murdered. The FBI then stayed silent when four innocent men were convicted of the crime. By the time the truth was revealed, two of the four men had died in prison.
9Yowr TIL During your sleep. Your brain will systematically shut down parts of it and push fluid in. Washing and cleansing itself. Meaning we're literally brainwashed on a daily basis.
5YyZn TIL about Men’s Mental Health—How It Affects Modern Men In 2020 [Constructive Guide]
nGer TIL of a woman who has won the Lottery four times since 1993. She was outed as a PhD of Statistics from Standford University and had figured out the pseudo-number generator for the distribution of the winning tickets. She allegedly still spends 2 months a year playing scratchers to win again.
JY741 TIL that Martin Luther King’s mother was also assassinated. A deranged man who believed Christianity was harming African Americans gunned her down as she played the organ in church. He was sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment because the Kings opposed capital punishment.