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TIL: In 2020, a study was performed by asking pedestrians to cross a street hundreds of times and found that the likelihood of a car slowing down decreases by 3% for every $1000 in car value. The study followed up a Finnish study which concluded Audi, BMW, and Mercedes drivers were unempathetic.

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xrV5 TIL serial killer Robert Hansen abducted his victims and flew them to his isolated cabin in the Alaskan mountains. He then released them and hunted them with a knife and a Ruger Mini-14.
AlEl TIL the Roman poet Virgil kept a pet housefly, and upon it’s death, he held an extremely extravagant funeral for it. He even built it a mausoleum.
DQgKj TIL the substance that forms the outer shell of plant spores & pollen, Sporopollenin, is one of the thoughest, most stable biopolymers in the world. It's so resistant that it can't be studied using normal enzymes or chemical reagents, and it can stay intact in sediment for +500 million years.
16a9d TIL Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, empowered his imperial princes because he blamed the weakening of imperial princes for the preceding Wei Dynasty’s fall. Ironically, this led to the destabilization of his own dynasty and forced their retreat south of the Huai river
Bewb TIL that tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis lost 16 consecutive times to Jimmy Connors. When finally beating Connors on their 17th meeting, he said “And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row”