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TIL that in the US at least, automobile safety — air bags, seat belts, etc.—is tested with female- and infant-sized crash test dummies as well as adult male sizes.

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LkGRm Til There’s a Hybrid between a Polar and Grizzly Bear called a “Prizly” or a “Grolar” Bear
EgGNx TIL no one has seen a newborn great white shark pup or birth in the wild.
XELdr TIL, potential new antibiotics were discovered due to research into folklore that putting Russian brown frogs into a milk bucket would keep the milk from going sour.
W71ZY TIL as recently as the 1960s, information about bagels was not necessarily common knowledge. In 1960, The New York Times famously identified bagels for still-clueless readers as “an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”
ZQVp TIL of the saluting trap. British army conscripts would form a large group, then one by one walk to an officer. Each would salute, forcing him to salute back. The goal was to force the officer to salute as many soldiers as possible as fast as possible to make his arm sore.