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TIL that the high rate of lesbians driving Subarus is not a coincidence, but rather the result of a strategic marketing campaign based around the outdoorsiness of the vehicle brand and the niche target market

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yVZn8 TIL 90% of people struck by lightning survive
jNXMp TIL in 1920s - 1960s Germany, there was a trend to pose in a photo with a person in a polar bear costume. In thousands of photos, the bear doesn't change much in looks or poses, but history advances around the polar bear: from smiling beachgoers to smiling Nazis to smiling American G.I.s.
QdJa TIL that babies in Iceland are routinely left outside, alone, in below-freezing temperatures…to nap.
xL8w TIL the Marines use a non-lethal heat beam to ward off people “causing a feeling similar to being on fire”
Lkg7v TIL Prof John Lorber discovered a maths genius who had almost no brain due to a condition known as hydrocephalus. He went on to discover many other people with 90% of their brains missing that had normal to high IQs