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TIL Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, is an altered mental state in which a person can drive a car, truck, or other automobile great distances, responding to external events in the expected, safe, and correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so.

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rNr74 TIL that a Black Hole is an extremely dense cosmic object that devours everything which passes by, even the light that can’t unfortunately escape.
4X4aN TIL Holding in your Fart can actually cause Bad Breath.When gas hangs out too long in your intestine, it begins to reabsorb into your bloodstream. It is then carried through your body up to your lungs where it is processed out and leaves when you exhale!
RLX4 TIL a sports science researcher from France, Jean-Denis Rouillon of the University of Besançon, found after fifteen years of empirical research that women who go braless have, on average, perkier breasts, with nipples on average 7mm higher in relation to their shoulders than regular bra users.
lo9mA TIL that turkeys can fly up to 60 miles an hour despite their 20 pound heft. They roost high up in the trees at night, but spend most of their time on the ground, causing the misconception that they are incapable of flight at all.
R7eNw TIL comic, actor and comedian Carl Reiner was an avid wrestling fan since the 1950s. Late wrestler later turned manager Freddie Blassie appeared as himself on the Dick Van Dyke show which Reiner created a decade after his noted wrestling fandom began.