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TIL a UC Berkeley study found that drivers of luxury cars such as BMW and Mercedes are less considerate of others on the road.

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0wy6A TIL of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the only known white woman to be murdered working for the Civil Rights movement.
pgKQ TIL Kirk Douglas decided to get blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo credited for Spartacus when Kubrick suggested that his own name be used. Douglas found Kubrick’s eagerness to take credit for Trumbo’s work revolting.
r1DW TIL if you walk home from a bar, you are 8 times more likely to die than if you drove
jNxGR TIL: By the time the last wooly mammoths went extinct, the Great Pyramid of Giza was already 500 years old.
PWWV TIL “head over heels” was originally “heels over head,” which makes a lot more literal sense