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TIL that Nearly half of Americans (49%) have parallelophobia, or the fear of parallel parking. Only about half (53%) feel “very confident” in their parallel parking skills.

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xVLx7 TIL Mike Tyson's Training Regiment included waking up at 4am, jogging 5-miles. Then he would do 2000 sit-ups, 500 pushups, 500 dips, 500 shrugs and about 30 minutes of neck bridges daily. He repeated this 6 days a week.
N77XM TIL in 2009 Bon Iver hosted an overnight show in a cemetery in Hollywood. Everyone arrived at midnight, he DJed his favorite songs, they watched a Wes Anderson movie and Planet Earth, a group of buddhist monks performed a blessing, and then he played For Emma straight through at sunrise.
OGJWR TIL One of the biggest bottlenecks in road work is soil compaction. Soil can’t effectively be compacted more than around a foot (30 cm) at a time. Any road work that affects the soil foundation can take months because of this.
j8lX TIL, the last Empress of Korea was assassinated and burnt by the Japanese in 1895
jNbva TIL that director Steven Spielberg is never present when the last scene of his movies are being shot