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TIL Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands. Tesla vehicles have a fatal crash rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven, according to the study.

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gRJX TIL that a Pizza Hut manager during the Joplin tornado saved many lives by herding customers into a walk in freezer and bungee cording his arm to the freezer door before being sucked into the tornado and killed.
XEEEQ TIL State Farm refused to insure Florida homeowners for 5 years due to the high risk and only came back as a subsidiary in 2011 to limit liability on the company as a whole.
8ewQZ TIL that Walmart tried and failed to establish itself in Germany in the early 2000s. One of the speculated reasons for its failure is that Germans found certain team-building activities and the forced greeting and smiling at customers unnerving.
MwxV TIL that among the first people to have their genome sequenced were two white American scientists and one Korean. Surprisingly, the two whites were found to be closer genetically to the Korean than to each other.
p8Y8O TIL the Norris-Bittaker tape; an audio recording of a murder so brutal that it is used to desensitize potential FBI agents. It has been deemed too gruesome to be released to the public, and an officer took his own life after hearing it.