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TIL if cars were driven by computers, a single lane of freeway could transport road trains of up to 35,000 vehicles per hour, up from 1,500 human driven cars per hour [x-post r/SelfDrivingCars]

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Pe4g TIL Lawrence Singleton served just eight years in prison after raping a fifteen-year-old girl and cutting her arms off with a hatchet, California law was changed as a result. He went on to kill again.
78gPL TIL that the Romans used urine as a cleaning agent
rNd1x TIL that WWII British commandos were trained to instinctively take cover by having live ammunition shot 3 to 5 feet from them if they needlessly exposed themselves while maneuvering
BApD TIL that in his review of “Lulu”, the collaboration between Metallica and Lou Reed, Chuck Klosterman wrote: “If the Red Hot Chili Peppers acoustically covered the 12 worst Primus songs for Starbucks, it would still be (slightly) better than this.”
GYDN1 TIL that the word helicopter is not split up into "heli" and "copter" but rather split into "helico" meaning spiral and "-pter" meaning one with wings