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TIL - New Hampshire is the only state in the US where drivers over the age of 18 aren't required to wear a seat belt.

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7xJM TIL During the first Gulf War the United States used bulldozers in an assault on entrenched Iraqi soldiers, burying between 80-250 people alive.
v7K4 TIL a man was found alive in an air pocket on a sunk ship after three days of no water, no food, and in pitch black.
OowDR TIL Dogs kill 25x more people each year than crocodiles do
awR4Z TIL If you are named in someone's will, you are not called an "heir" -- you are a beneficiary. Heirs are legally defined for when someone dies intestate (without a will). Heirs may not be beneficiaries and beneficiaries may not be heirs.
rNN9e TIL in 1999, Danish physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 38 mph (61 kmph), and was later able to stop it completely, manipulate it, even move it to a different location.