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TIL a woman named Hien Tran was laying in intensive care after a car accident and investigators were searching for clues due to apparent stab wounds in her neck. A week after she died, a letter arrived from Honda urging her to get her red Accord fixed, because of faulty airbags that could explode

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M76x7 TIL when DMX was facing 5 yrs in prison for tax evasion, his lawyer played his song "Slippin'" for the judge to illustrate how far he had come since his "horrific childhood" in the hope for leniency. Indeed, the judge was affected by the circumstances of DMX's upbringing & sentenced him to just a yr
LkXy9 TIL a committee of five men was originally organised by Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence. However none of the senior members wanted the tedious burden of actually writing it. The task was foisted on junior member Thomas Jefferson who didn't want the job either.
VeAD TIL the Paraguayan War reduced Paraguay’s population from 525,000 to 221,000, of which only 28,000 were male
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x6m6b TIL the dots along the rim of a car’s windshield are called Frits. The Frit band is a baked on ceramic paint that protects sealants from UV rays that degrade sealants that hold the windshield in place and also for aesthetic reasons among other things.