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TIL Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats

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ADm4w TIL The Biggest Upset in Sports History happened when the Racehorse Man-O-War lost to a horse coincidentally named "Upset" at 100-1 odds
w7E8 TIL the World Trade Center still exists in the Muppet Christmas Movie when an angel shows Kermit the Frog what the world would be like if he hadn’t been born
4XW4g TIL a group of scientists from the University College, London set a new world record for the fastest ever broadband speed at 178Tbps, almost 3 million times faster than the fastest conventional broadband speeds.
8e91X TIL about Tulare Lake, once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi for thousands of years (3.5x larger than Lake Tahoe), resided in California's Central Valley before it all but completely disappeared in the late 19th Century primarily due to agriculture.
PYaGG TIL straight plastic bag bans implemented in Chicago and Hawaii resulted in many stores just upping the thickness of their plastic bags to 2.25 mils to cross the threshold that separates “single-use” plastic from “reusable” plastic bags under many bag laws.