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TIL: Using data from 60 countries on road quality, traffic deaths, and vehicle crime rates, researchers ranked the most dangerous countries to drive in. Lebanon is #1 overall. Thailand has the most deaths. The US - #12, Russia -#10. The safest were Singapore, Switzerland, Japan.

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WkyVL TIL technology already exists that lets one eavesdrop on a conversation across soundproof glass, without even seeing the speakers' mouths. Tiny vibrations caused by the sound on nearby objects like a houseplant or bag of chips can be used to derive the original sound/conversation.
NX0lJ TIL of the 1866 shipwreck of the General Grant near New Zealand. Of the 83 on board only 15 survived the sinking and became castaways on Auckland Island. After nine months four of the survivors attempted to row for help and were never seen again. After 16 months the last survivors were rescued.
pl44 TIL that billionaire Elon Musk was severely bullied throughout his childhood, and was once hospitalized when a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs and then beat him until he blacked out.
VMAZZ TIL a Japanese train driver was so fearful of being punished over a 90 second delay he caused the train to derail killing himself and 107 others
D1RXJ TIL there is a German island in the North Sea (Föhr) whose residents love the Manhattan cocktail - a relic of mass emigration to America in the late 1800s/early 1900s of island residents.