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TIL that the black dots on a windscreen are called frits and have multiple purposes, including serving as contact surface for the adhesive, protecting it from UV light and ensuring a smooth temperature gradient.

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QN01p TIL The University of British Columbia offers 140 sq ft (13 sq m) student "Nano" suites in order to be more affordable. The bed converts into a desk and a storage space with a clothes rail
9wyZG TIL Sissy Spacek funded the early David Lynch
grO4A TIL of Rita Crundwell, who embezzled $54 million as Comptroller of Dixon, IL (pop. 15,000). This was about 30% of the city's funding for 22 years. She served less than 9 years in prison and is now living on an 80-acre ranch that was likely bought with her ill-gotten gains.
b9PL9 TIL that the 1952 Great Smog of London was so bad that the smog came indoors and movie screenings and concerts had to be cancelled because it was more difficult to see inside a large room like a movie theater.
LkxgQ TIL the first known decorated eggs are 60,000 years old. These ostrich eggshells, discovered in South Africa, were likely used as water flasks. Many were engraved and colored black, beige, yellow, orange, teal and even bright red.