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TIL that a Japanese train barks like a dog and snorts like a deer in order to prevent collisions with animals on the railway

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ymaw TIL there was a radio station in San Jose whose call letters were KOME. Their slogans included “Don’t touch that dial, it’s got KOME on it,” “You’ve got KOME… oozing out of your speakers,” and “Wake up with KOME in your ear.”
wgko TIL that as of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime, which is more than half of his current net worth of $61 billion.
d8kAB TIL that being awake for 18 hours straight makes you drive like you have a blood alcohol level (BAC) of .05. Being awake for 24 hours is like you have a BAC of .1 (for reference, a BAC of .08 is considered drunk)
Lkodv TIL raindrops are not actually shaped like teardrops. Small raindrops are spherical due to water surface tension while larger raindrops, having more drag, will flatten out forming a hamburger bun, and even bigger raindrops will become a parashute eventually breaking up into smaller dropslets
D15Vp TIL for every bird killed by a windmill around 1700 are killed by cars.